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American writer (born 1967) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Michael Robert Auslin (born 17 March 1967) is an American historian, writer, and policy analyst, known for his work on U.S-Asian relations. He is currently the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University[1] and was formerly an associate professor of history at Yale University. Since 2024, he has published The Patowmack Packet, a Substack containing articles on the history of Washington, D.C.
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Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago.[2] He graduated with a BSci from Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service in 1988; received a Master's Degree from the Russian and East European Institute at Indiana University, Bloomington, in 1991; and was awarded a PhD in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, in 2000. In 1991-92, he lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme,[3] and he studied at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies, in Yokohama, in 1995-96.
Auslin was an assistant professor (2000–2006) and then associate professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University.[4] In addition, he was also the founding director of the Project on Japan-U.S. Relations (2004–2007) and a senior research fellow at the MacMillan Center for International and Area Studies (2006–2007) at Yale.[5]
In 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kobe University and in 2009 was a visiting professor in the Faculty of Law at Tokyo University.[4] After leaving Yale, he was a resident scholar and director of Japanese studies at the American Enterprise Institute, in Washington, D.C.[4] In 2017, he joined the Hoover Institution as the inaugural Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow in Contemporary Asia. Auslin is the Senior Advisor for Asia at the Halifax International Security Forum,[6] a Senior Fellow in the Asia and National Security Programs at the Foreign Policy Research Institute,[7] and was a senior fellow at London's Policy Exchange.[8]
Auslin currently serves on the board of directors of the American Ditchley Foundation[9] and as the Vice Chair of the Wilton Park USA Foundation.[10]
He was elected a fellow of the Royal Historical Society in 2018,[11] and was named a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2006 and a Marshall Memorial Fellow while a professor at Yale.[12] In addition, he was a Fulbright Scholar and Japan Foundation Scholar while in graduate school.
Auslin has testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Foreign Relations,[13] the U.S House of Representatives Armed Services Committee,[14] and the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.[15]
Auslin was a regular columnist for the Wall Street Journal,[16] writing on Asia, and continues to publish there as well as in The Atlantic[17], Foreign Affairs[18], Foreign Policy[19], National Review,[20] and The Spectator,[21] among others. He has been a commentator on Fox News, BBC, and for other media outlets, including The News Hour on PBS. He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire[5] and for Netflix's Age of Samurai, in 2021.[22] Auslin hosted the Pacific Century podcast, in which he interviewed senior policymakers, journalists, historians, business leaders, and others on contemporary Asian issues.
In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly eight works in over thirty publications in one language and 100+ library holdings.[23]
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