Since ending its last project in Syria in the late 1980s, ACOR has continued to support the study of and intellectual exchange about Syria and its cultural heritage, including through annual lectures (since 2021, see here) and the regular award of fellowships, such as:
| Year | First Name | Last Name | Award | Title |
| 1988-1989 | James | Deemer | NEH | Jordan’s place between the two political poles of Cairo and Damascus in the Islamic Middle Ages; Formal continuity and regional autonomy in the development of geometric interlace patterns on Umayyad floor mosaics |
| 1993-1994 | Dale | Lightfoot | USIA | Foggara Irrigation in the Jordanian-Syrian Desert: Contemporary Impacts of Ancient Technology |
| 1995-1996 | Beshara | Doumani | NMERTP | Family and Society in Greater Syria: A History of the Merchant Families in Jerusalem and Nablus |
| 2004-2005 | R. Stephen | Humphreys | CAORC | Christianity and Islam in Early Islamic Syria 634-809 |
| 2007-2008 | Stephanie | Pryor | CAORC | Personae Feminae: Representing Female Rulership in Arabia and Syria-Palestine (4th Century BCE – 3rd Century CE) |
| 2009-2010 | William | Zimmerle | Kress | Mapping the Neo- Assyrian empire in Northern Jordan – Southern Syria: Imperial Landscape Change and the Archaeology of Trade Networks in Iron Age Gilead |
| 2009-2010 | Balazs | Major | Mellon | Comparative Study of the Medieval Rural Settlements of the Syrian Coast and the Western Part of Jordan (11-14th century) |
| 2011-2012 | Nora | Barakat | CAORC | Rethinking the Modern – Animals, Pastoral Nomads and Property relations in Late Ottoman Syria |
| 2013-2014 | Patrick John | Adamiak | CAORC | Importing Ottoman Nationals: The Ottoman Settlement of Caucasian Refugees and Ottoman Governance in Anatolia and Greater Syria 1860-1918 |
| 2014-2015 | Tareq | Ramadan | CAORC | An Archaeology of the Political Economy of Umayyad Syria: Re-examining State Formation through an Examination of State-produced Inscribed Material Culture |
| 2015-2016 | Ali | Hamdan | CAORC | Tracing the Roots of Conflict: Geographic Perspectives on Sectarian Violence in Syria |
| 2016-2017 | Lillian | Frost | CAORC | Redefining Co-Nationals: Variations in States’ Citizenship Policies Over Time |
| 2016-2017 | Rana | Khoury | CAORC | Blurred Boundaries: External and Local Determinants of Social Order in Syria’s Civil War |
| 2017-2018 | Rawan | Arar | CAORC | Shouldering the Refugee Burden: Jordan and the Global Refugee Crisis |
| 2018-2019 | Julia | Gettle | CAORC | Popular Politics in Greater Syria: Marxism and the Clash of Nationalisms, 1948 to 1970 |
| 2019-2020 | Najib | Hourani | CAORC | Urban Reconstruction in Syria: Toward a Positive Peace? |
| 2020-2021 | Veronika | Poier | de Vries | Human Mobility and the Technical Parameters of Transmitting Traditional Syrian Stone Carving Methods |
| 2022-2023 | Ahmad | Ababnah | JGS | The Mamluk and Ottoman Mosques on the Shami Pilgrimage Route |
| 2022-2023 | Sarah | Islam | CAORC | Blasphemy (Sabb al-Rasūl) as a Legal Category in Islamic Law: Historical Formulations and Contemporary Applications |
| 2023-2024 | Benjamin | Allison | Bikai | Through the Cracks of Détente: The Superpowers, the Arab “Radicals,” and the Coming of the Second Cold War, 1977–1984 |
Updated 11 December 2025 – more information to come.
