Dr. Michael Auslin
Resident Scholar
American Enterprise Institute
AEI's Director of Japan Studies, Michael Auslin, 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. 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. His writings on Japan and Japanese diplomacy include the books Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy and Japan Society: Celebrating a Century, 1907-2007.
Professional 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
- Visiting Researcher, Graduate School of Law, Kobe University, 2005
- Founding Director, Project on Japan-U.S. Relations, Yale University, 2004-2007
Education
Ph.D., University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
M.A., Indiana University at Bloomington
B.S.F.S., Georgetown University