Jeff Hayton, Associate Professor in the Department of History, published “The Path of Gratitude: East German Climbers in North Korea’s Diamond Mountains” in German Studies Review May 1.
Abstract: This article investigates the origins, course, and experiences of two East German mountaineering expeditions to North Korea in the 1980s. Examining how expedition members understood and processed their encounters with socialism in the Far East, it explores how their experiences with time and space as well as dictatorship and modernity in North Korea led them to ponder the nature and future of state socialism back home in the German Democratic Republic.