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Dr. Alberto Giordano

  • Professor - Dept of Geography & Environmntl Studies

Education

Doctorate Degree

PhD in Geography

Syracuse University, 1999

Master's Degree

MA in Geography

Univ of California, Santa Barbara, 1995

Bachelor's Degree

BA in Geography

University of Padua, 1987

  • Giordano, Alberto (Principal), Herrmann, Nicholas Paul (Co-Principal), Spradley, Martha K (Supporting). HNDS-I: Migrant Mortality Mapping Portal Project (M3P2), National Science Foundation, Federal. (Funded: September 1, 2022 - August 31, 2026). 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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  • Cruz, J., Giordano, A., & (Waliczek) Cade, T. M. (2025). Developing a university campus tree inventory and determining the value of the campus canopy through student service-learning. HortTechnology, 35(5), 687–698. https://doi.org/DOI:%2010.21273/HORTTECH05713-25
  • Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2018). The Limits of GIS: Towards a GIS of Place. Transactions in GIS, 22(3), 664–676.
  • Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2025). Mapping the emotional landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing space and place in survivor trajectories. Holocaust and Genocide Studies. https://doi.org/10.1093/hgs/dcaf044
  • Choi, Y., & Giordano, A. (2025). The Storyteller’s Legacy: Materiality, Commemoration, and the Geography of Historical Markers. Journal of Historical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2025.08.006
  • Cruz, J., Giordano, A., & (Waliczek) Cade, T. M. (2025). Developing a university campus tree inventory as a tool for sustainability, student and community education. HortScience.
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  • 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
  1. Other

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

  2. President

    University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS)

  3. Chair

    Department of Geography

  4. Editorial Review Board Member

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

  5. Member

    Forensic Border Coalition

  6. Editorial Review Board Member

    The Southwestern Geographer

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