Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu
Andrei Nicolae Nacu, Assistant Researcher
- Cartography, Historical geography, History of cartography
- Cartography and GIS;
- Historical geographic information systems (HGIS);
- Historical geography of Romania;
- Modern and contemporary history.
Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu
Bd. Victoriei 40, RO-550024
Phone: 0269-212604; Fax: 0269-216605
E-mail: nacu@icsusib.ro
Web: https://icsusibiu.academia.edu/AndreiNacu
- Postdoctoral project - Heritage and Ethnicity in Romania: Mapping with Advanced New Software Tools, an Accessible Database for Transylvania, Acronym HERMAN(N)STADT, PN-III-P1-1.1-PD-2019-1041 (Project director);
- Historical Atlas of Romanian Towns. Timișoara (Project member);
- Ecclesiastical topography in the Transylvanian medieval towns. Case studies: Sibiu and Brașov - Romanian Academy Research Grant GAR-UM-2019-II-2.5-3/15.10.2019 (Project member);
- Digital Tabula Imperii Byzantini (Peripherical Mountains in the Medieval World) - comissioned by the Austrian Academy of Sciences - Institute for Medieval Research to create a geo-spatial database regarding the settlement network of North Macedonia in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Andrei Nacu is a graduate of the Faculty of Geography, "Babeş-Bolyai" University of Cluj-Napoca (2012). He completed the MA program "Protection and Valorification of Historical Heritage" at the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu (2015). In 2018, he defended his PhD thesis entitled "The Province of Sibiu in cartographic documents produced at the Dawn of the Modern Age" at the "Lucian Blaga" University of Sibiu. In February 2017, he became a researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities Sibiu. By 2021, he has published a volume as single author (The Saxon seats in cartographic documents from the 16th-18th centuries, Bucharest, 2020), a historical atlas (Historical atlas of Bukovina, Bucharest, 2018), around 15 studies and over 100 historical maps. Some of the historical maps have been used in works printed by prestigious publishers such as Routledge or Brill. He has participated, as a project director, member or collaborator, in 5 national and international research projects and grants. He is a cartographic editor for the series Historical Atlas of Romanian Towns, a member of the Association for Transylvanian Studies and a member of the Commission for the History of Romanian Towns.
