Career
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.
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