Mari Yoshihara (吉原真里, Yoshihara Mari, born 28 May 1968) is an American academic. She is a professor of American Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, and specializes in American cultural history and US-Asian relations. She is also an amateur pianist.

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Mari Yoshihara
Yoshihara at the Bishop Museum in 2022
Born	28 May 1968  New York City
Alma mater	University of Tokyo Brown University
Occupation	University teacher, pianist
Employer	University of Hawaiʻi

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Yoshihara was born in New York City and grew up in Tokyo.^[1] She attended high school in Yokohama and graduated from the University of Tokyo before earning a master's degree and doctorate from Brown University.^[2] Yoshihara has taught at the University of Hawaii at Manoa since 1997 and served as chief editor of the journal American Quarterly since 2014.^[3]

She played the piano since the age of three,^[4] but took a break from playing while in graduate school. As an adult, she has entered competitions like the Van Cliburn International Piano Competition as an amateur, and won in the 2014 Aloha International Piano Festival's amateur division.^[5][6]

• Yoshihara, Mari (2003). Embracing the East : white women and American orientalism. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780198033233. OCLC 57365434.
• Yoshihara, Mari (2007). Musicians from a different shore : Asians and Asian Americans in classical music. Philadelphia: Temple University Press. ISBN 9781592133345. OCLC 233003149.