Michael North#
| Membership Number: | 3212 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | HISTORY & ARCHAEOLOGY |
| Elected: | 2012 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1995 - current University of Greifswald: Professor and Chair of Modern History
- 1995 University of Rostock: Visiting Professor of Regional History
- 1994 University of Kiel: Professor of Medieval and Modern History
- 1991 University of Bielefeld: Visiting Professor of Economic History
- 1989 - 1994 University of Kiel: Privatdocent of Medieval and Modern History
- 1982 - 1994 University of Kiel: Curator at the Art Gallery
- 1980 - 1982 Hamburg: Assistant Curator at the Museum für Hamburgische Geschichte
Fields of Scholarship
- Banking
- Cultural exchange
- European economic and cultural history
- Trade
- Money
- Art markets
- Material culture
Honours and Awards
- 09/10 - 06/11 Fulbright Distinguished Chair in Modern German Studies at University of California at Santa Barbara
- 09/09 - 01/10 Coordinator of the Researchgroup “The Reception of Netherlandish Art in the Indian Ocean Region and East Asia, and its Impact on Asian Cultures” at the Netherlandisch Institute of Advanced Study [NIAS] in Wassenaar (Netherlands)
- 01/09 - 04/09 Fellow in Residence at the Vlaams Academisch Centrum [VLAC] in Brussels
- 01 - 03/2007 Fellow-in-Residence of the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study [NIAS] in Wassenaar (Netherlands)
- 04/06 - 03/07 Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy, Ernst-Moritz-Arndt-University
- 10/04 - 03/05 Research Fellowship German Research Council [DFG-Forschungsemester]
- 01 - 03/04 Visiting Scholar at the Getty Research Institute Los Angeles
- 1999 - current Member of the Scientific Committee of Istituto Internazionale di Storia Economica „Francesco Datini“ in Prato (Italy)
