Michael North is Professor and Chair of Modern History at the University of Greifswald, Honorary Doctor of the University of Tartu and Director of the International Graduate Program “Baltic Borderlands”. Between 2007-2010 he acted as Deputy Vice Chancellor of Research and Internationalization of Greifswald University.
His publications include: Art and Commerce in the Dutch Golden Age (Yale University Press, 1997), Art Markets in Europe, 1400‐1800 (Ashgate Publishing, 1998, together with David Ormrod), Material Delight and the Joy of Living: Cultural Consumption in Germany in the Age of Enlightenment (Ashgate Publishing, 2008), Artistic and Cultural Exchanges between Europe and Asia 1400‐1900 (Ashgate Publishing, 2010), The Expansion of Europe, 1250‐1500 (Manchester, 2012), Mediating Netherlandish Art and Material Culture in Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2014, together with Thomas DaCosta Kaufmann) and The Baltic: A History (Harvard University Press, 2015).
