Professor Dr. Dr. h.c. Michael North

Chair of Modern History
Bahnhofstraße 51
17487 Greifswald
Raum 1.05
Tel.: +49 (0)3834 420 3308/-3309
north[at]uni-greifswald.de

Sprechzeiten: n. V.

Michael North (1954), who started his career as assistant curator at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte, has been Professor and Chair of Modern History at the University of Greifswald. He has received honorary doctorates from the Universities of Szczecin and of Tartu, was director of the Graduate Program “Contact Area Mare Balticum” from 2000 to 2009, director of the International Graduate Program “Baltic Borderlands” from 2009 to 2018, and is Speaker (i.e., director) of Interdisciplinary Centre for Baltic Sea Region Research (IFZO).

His book publications include:

  • Das Goldene Zeitalter global. Die Niederlande im 17. und 18. Jahrhundert (Köln 2021).
  • Zwischen Hafen und Horizont. Weltgeschichte der Meere (München 2016). Estonian Translation 2018, Arab translation 2019. English translation (Bloomsbury, 2021). Chinese translations in progress.
  • Globalizing Borderlands Studies in Europe and North America (ed. together with John W.I. Lee, Lincoln 2016). Korean translation (Somyung Publishing) 2020.
  • The Baltic: A History (Cambridge MA), 2015. Estonian Translation 2015, Polish translation 2019, Latvian translation 2019. Russian translation in progress.
  • The Expansion of Europe, 1250‐1500 (Manchester 2012).
  • Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia 1400‐1900 (Farnham 2010).

Recent articles:

  • Kultureller Austausch: Die Migration niederländischer Architekten und Bildhauer in den Ostseeraum (16. und 17. Jahrhundert), in: F. Göttmann, E.-M. Seng (eds.), Innovation in der Bauwirtschaft. Wesersandstein vom 16. bis 19. Jahrhundert. Architektur und Digital Humanities, Berlin/Boston 2021, pp. 447-458.
  • Cultural Exchange. The Migration of Dutch Architects and Sculptors in the Baltic Sea Region (16th and 17th centuries), in: F. Göttmann, E.-M. Seng (eds.), Innovation in the Building Industry. Weser Sandstone from the 16th and the 19th century. Berlin/Boston 2021, pp. 459-474.
  • Globale Dinge. Zirkulation im niederländischen Handelsimperium, in: U. Gleixner, M. dos Santos Lopes (eds.), Things on the Move – Dinge unterwegs. Objects in Early Modern Cultural Transfer. Göttingen 2021, pp. 125-139.
  • Migration und kulturelle Kontakte zwischen den Niederlanden, Schleswig, Holstein und dem Ostseeraum, in: Kirsten Baumann, Constanze Köster, Uta Kuhl (eds.) Wissenstransfer und Kulturimport in der Frühen Neuzeit. Die Niederlande und Schleswig-Holstein, Petersberg 2020, pp. 47-55.
  • “Der Ostseeraum: Konstitution und Neuerfindung einer Region,” in Regionalität als historische Kategorie. Ostmitteleuropäische Perspektiven, ed. Sabine Jagodzinski, Aleksandra Kmak-Pamirska andMiloš Řezník (= DHI Warschau, Quellen und Studien, 37), Osnabrück: fibre, 2019, 171-186.
  • Sekularyzacja – Rebelia – Migracja –Innowacja. Różnorodne ekonomiczne skutki reformacji w regionie Morza Bałtyckiego, in: Przegląd Zachodniopomorski 4 (2019): 9-32.
  • “Mari connessi,” in Reti marittime come fattori dell’integrazione europea / Maritime Networks as a Factor in European Integration, ed. Giampiero Nigro, Firenze: Firenze University Press,2019, 259-279.
  • “Säkularisation – Rebellion – Migration – Innovation. Die vielfältigen ökonomischen Auswirkungen der Reformation im Ostseeraum,” in Reformatio Baltica. Kulturwirkungen der Reformation in den Metropolen des Ostseeraums, ed. Heinrich Assel, Johann Anselm Steiger andAxel E. Walter. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2018, 101-118.
  • “The Baltic Sea,” in Oceanic Histories (Cambridge Oceanic Histories), ed. David R. Armitage, Alison Bashford, Sujit Sivasundaram. Cambridge/New York: Cambridge University Press, 2018, 209-233.
  • “Connected Seas I,” in History Compass (2018) (

https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12503); “Connected Seas II: The perception and memory of the seas,” in History Compass (2018) (https://doi.org/10.1111/hic3.12502).

 

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