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.

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
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
- Other
Center for Advanced Genocide Research, Shoah Foundation, University of Southern California
- President
University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)
- Chair
Department of Geography
- Editorial Review Board Member
Bollettino dell Societa' Geografica Italiana (Bulletin of the Italian Geographical Society)
- Member
Forensic Border Coalition
- Editorial Review Board Member
The Southwestern Geographer