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Texas State University

Dr. Alberto Giordano

  • Professor - Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies
  • tel:+15122456581
  • ag22@txstate.edu
  • Grants
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

Featured grants

  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Supporting). HNDS-I: Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2), National Science Foundation, Federal, $1001109. (Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2025). Grant.
  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Cole, Tim (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. The Experience of Hungarian Jews in Budapest during and immediately after the Holocaust, Toni Schiff Memorial Fund, London, UK, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $70000. (Funded: 2017 - 2022). Grant.
  • Giordano, Alberto (Co-Principal), Percent Contribution: %20, Knowles, Anne (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. Visualizing Spatial Experience in Holocaust Testimony, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), Federal, $296455. (Funded: 2016 - 2018). Grant.
  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50, Knowles, Anne (Principal), Percent Contribution: %50. Collaborative Research: Holocaust Historical GIS, National Science Foundation, Federal, $453066. (Funded: 2008 - 2012). Grant.
  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal). Migrant Border-Related Deaths in Texas: Systematic Visualization of Vague Geographies, Texas State University, $7837.75. (Submitted: October 4, 2023, Funded: 2023 - 2024). Grant.
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Featured scholarly/creative works

  • Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2018). The Limits of GIS: Towards a GIS of Place. Transactions in GIS, 22(3), 664–676.
  • Cruz, J., Giordano, A., & (Waliczek) Cade, T. M. (n.d.). Developing a university campus tree inventory as a tool for sustainability, student and community education. HortScience.
  • Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2024). Local Management of Migrant Death in South Texas: A Necropolitical Landscape. The Professional Geographer, 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2024.2398247
  • Anderson, C. J., & Giordano, A. (2024). A Spatial Model for the Representation of Emotional Landscapes. Transactions in GIS. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.13212
  • Giordano, A., Jakulis, M., Verbickienė, J., Poška, A., & Ryčkov, A. (2024). Methodological Perspectives on Smuggling: The GDL-Prussia Borderlands in the Late Eighteenth Century. Journal of Borderlands Studies, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.1080/08865655.2024.2356789
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Featured awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Favorite Professor, Alfred H. Nolle Chapter of the Alpha Chi National College Honor Society. April 2024
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2023 Presidential Distinction Award for Scholarly/Creative Activities, College of Liberal Arts, Texas State University. March 1, 2023
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2020 Teaching Award of Honor, Texas State University Alumni Association. 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: 2020 Alpha Chi Favorite Professor, Alpha Chi National Honor Society. November 18, 2020
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Fulbright Specialist Program, Lithuania, U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. April 27, 2019 - May 11, 2019

Featured service activities

  1. Other

    Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California

    2016 - Present
  2. President

    University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

    June 2018 - June 2019
  3. Chair

    Department of Geography

    September 2013 - August 2018
  4. Editorial Review Board Member

    Bollettino dell Societa' Geografica Italiana (Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society)

    2021 - Present
  5. Member

    Forensic Border Coalition

    2016 - Present
  6. Editorial Review Board Member

    The Southwestern Geographer

    2013 - Present
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