Michael Auslin

Resident Scholar

Michael Auslin, AEI's director of Japan Studies, was an associate professor of history and senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies at Yale University prior to joining AEI. A frequent commentator in U.S. and foreign media, Mr. Auslin is also a columnist for the Wall Street Journal. His writings on Asia and Japan include the book Pacific Cosmopolitans: A Cultural History of U.S.-Japan Relations (Harvard University Press, 2011) and the report Security in the Indo-Pacific Commons: Toward a Regional Strategy (AEI Press, 2010). He has been named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, a Marshall Memorial Fellow by the German Marshall Fund, and a Fulbright and Japan Foundation Scholar.

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Experience

  • Associate Professor, 2006-2007; assistant professor, 2000-2006, Department of History, Yale University
  • Senior Research Fellow, MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies, 2006-2007
  • Founding Director, Project on Japan-U.S. Relations, Yale University, 2004-2007
  • Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, 2005

Education

Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington
B.S.F.S., Georgetown University