Aaron Horton

Aaron D. Horton specializes in modern German and East Asian cultural and intellectual history. Since 2004, he has taught at five different universities: East Tennessee State University, Louisiana State University, Grambling State University, the University of Arkansas at Little Rock, and Alabama State University. He earned his doctorate in history in May 2011 from Louisiana State University, and currently serves as an Associate Professor of History at Alabama State University in Montgomery, AL, where he lives with his wife Suzanne and their cats. In January 2014, he published his first monograph, POWs, Der Ruf, and the Genesis of Group 47: The Political Journey of Alfred Andersch and Hans Werner Richter, with Fairleigh Dickenson University Press. His next publication, “The Hermit Kingdom vs. the World: North Korea in the 2010 World Cup,” will appear in Football and the Boundaries of History, forthcoming from Palgrave Macmillan in 2017.