[1][2][3][4] ASA's mission is to promote the academic study of the Assyrian heritage through supporting research, teaching, and intellectual collaboration among scholars in fields that include history, archaeology, cultural heritage, religion, language, literary studies, social sciences, arts and architecture, law among others.

As a result of those discussions, AAS supported a compromise solution, proposed by the Census Bureau, that was based on the use of a compound "Assyrian/Chaldean/Syriac" designation for all communities that self-identify with those appellations.

[20][21] Since 2014, collective efforts in the fields of organization and promotion of academic and educational activities among Assyrian Americans were regrouped and restructured, and in 2019, the ASA was established.

[22] The group continued traditional cooperation with the Middle Eastern Studies Association (MESA) through the form of an official partner organization,[23] previously established and conducted by AAS over the course of two decades.

[26] The Heritage Archive is a collection of historical Assyrian materials such as books, photographs, and poems to display for exhibitions.

[30] The film was conceived by John (Aghajan) Baba, who had immigrated from Sir, West Azerbaijan and established a publication, Kitavona.

Additionally, the ASA also hosted a symposium in 2023, discussing the challenges of studying and preserving Assyrian history and identity, while simultaneously searching for new avenues of scholarship.