Florin-Stefan Morar

Florin-Stefan Morar received his PhD from the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University in 2019. He is currently Assistant Professor of History and Director of the NUS History+AI Lab. His research connects global history, science and technology studies, and the computational humanities, examining how knowledge moves across cultures and changes through technological transformation.

His first book, *Connected Cartographies: World Geography and the Sino-Western Translation of Knowledge, 1580–1842*, was published by Cambridge University Press in 2025. It reconstructs encounters between Chinese and European traditions of geography and cartography and challenges conventional accounts of knowledge production during the Age of Discovery.

His current research explores how artificial intelligence can transform historical inquiry. His *Science and Emotions* project combines computational analysis with historical interpretation to study emotion in large collections of scientific correspondence. Extending from figures such as Galileo, Darwin, Justus von Liebig, Einstein, and Marie Curie to East Asian scientists including Y. R. Chao and Yoshio Nishina, the project examines how feelings such as wonder, rivalry, anxiety, grief, and affection shaped scientific lives and intellectual exchange. In a second collaborative project, Morar applies computational methods to Colonial Office files to uncover new patterns and perspectives in the history of Singapore. Through the History+AI Lab, he develops approaches involving language models, machine-learning pipelines, spatial computing, and immersive environments for research, teaching, and public engagement.

TEACHING AREAS:

• AI and Humanities
• History of Technology
• East Asian Studies
• Global History
• Science and Technology Studies

RESEARACH AREAS:

• AI Approaches to History
• Global History of Knowledge
• History of Technology
• Computational Humanities