Michael Auslin

Michael Robert Auslin (1967— ) is an American academic, historian, Japanologist. He was formerly an Associate Professor of at Yale University; and he is now Director of Japanese Studies at the American Enterprise Institute, which is a conservative think tank in Washington, DC.^[1]

Early life

Auslin grew up in suburban Chicago.^[2] He lived and worked in Japan as an Assistant Language Teacher on the JET Programme.^[3] He earned a master's degree from the Indiana University at Bloomington, and his Ph.D. was awarded at the University of Illinois University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Auslin also graduated from the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University.^[1]

Career

Auslin was an Assistant Professor (2000–2006) and then Associate Professor (2006–2007) in the Department of History at Yale University.^[1] 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.^[4]

In 2005, he was a visiting researcher at the Graduate School of Law of Kobe University.^[1]

He was a featured commentator and script consultant in the 2004 PBS series "Japan: Memoirs of a Secret Empire."^[4]

Auslin has questioned the capability of the Lockheed Martin F-35 Lightning II to engage modern air defenses, in spite of Russia's own admission that their systems are vulnerable to the F-35.^[5][6]

Select works

In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about Michael Auslin, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 8 works in 30+ publications in 1 language and 100+ library holdings.^[7]

• 2006 — Negotiating with Imperialism: The Unequal Treaties and the Culture of Japanese Diplomacy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. 10-ISBN 0-674-01521-5; 13-ISBN 978-0-674-01521-0; OCLC 56493769
• 2007 — Japan Society: Celebrating a Century 1907-2007 (with Edwin O. Reischauer). New York: Japan Society. 13-ISBN 9780913304594/10-ISBN 091330459X; OCLC 85766283

Journals

• "The Japanese Discovery of America: A Brief History with Documents," The Historian, Vol. 61, 1999.

Honors

• Fulbright fellow^[4]
• Japan Foundation fellow^[4]
• Marshall fellow^[8]

Notes

External links

• PBS: "Memoirs of a Secret Empire", 2004 film, aired May 26, 2004
• Library of Congress webcast: Highlights of Japan-US relationship with Norman Mineta, Midori Goto, Naoyuki Agawa and Michael Auslin, 2007
• Interview with Auslin on "New Books in East Asian Studies"