The Kluge Center is very pleased to welcome Michael Auslin into residence as a Distinguished Visiting Scholar.
A historian by training, Auslin is the Payson J. Treat Distinguished Research Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, and previously was an associate professor of history at Yale University. He is the author of the award-winning Negotiating with Imperialism and the bestselling The End of the Asian Century, among other books.
Auslin is an elected fellow of the Royal Historical Society and a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute, and he serves on the board of the American Ditchley Foundation. Among his honors are being named a Fulbright Scholar, a German Marshall Fund Marshall Memorial Fellow, and a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
While in residence, Auslin will be completing a book entitled “National Treasure: The Life of the Declaration of Independence,” which will be the first complete history of America’s founding document and will be published by Simon & Schuster’s Avid Reader Press, in 2026.