Aslan is also a scholar and teacher of tango music. He wrote his Masters Thesis at UCLA on "Tango: Stylistic Evolution and Innovation", writes regularly for Tango Times, La Voz del Tango, El Firulete, and was Contributing Editor of La Posta del Tango. He has lectured on the history of the tango at Wesleyan University, Stanford Tango Workshop, City University of New York, University of North Carolina, Emory University, and in several cities in the US and Europe.