Faculty Profiles

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

Miranker, M., Daniell, R., Kaplan, M. A., Flores-Guillen, V., Hernandez, J., Edgar, H., … Giordano, A. (2024). What is a migrant death? An operational definition for a more accurate enumeration of migrant mortality along the US-Mexico border. Forensic Science International, 363(October), 112156. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2024.112156

Le Noc, M., Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (n.d.). Family Trajectories in Mid-20th Century Jewish Budapest: New Tools for Representation and Analysis of Socio-Spatial Networks.

Jakulis, M., Ryčkov, A., Poška, A., Giordano, A., & Šiaučiūnaitė-Verbickienė, J. (2024). Smuggling in the Grand Duchy of Lithuania–kingdom of Prussia borderland at the end of the eighteenth century: the case of Palanga customs. Journal of Baltic Studies, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1080/01629778.2024.2360393

Cole, T., Giordano, A., & Le Noc, M. (n.d.). A City of ‘ambiguous loss’: Digital Methods and Multi-Scalar Examination of Jewish Budapest in the Aftermath of the Holocaust. Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (n.d.). Mapping the emotional landscapes of the Holocaust: Visualizing space and place in survivor trajectories. Holocaust and Genocide Studies.

Choi, Y., & Giordano, A. (2024). Patterns of Commemoration: The Texas Historical Markers Program. The Professional Geographer, 76(3), 375–388. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2024.2308623

Kushkin, A., Giordano, A., Griffin, A., & Savelyev, A. (2024). Cognitively Congruent Color Palettes for Mapping Spatial Emotional Data. Matching Colors to Emotions. Cartographic Perspectives, (102), 38–62. https://doi.org/10.14714/cp102.1821

Jakulis, M., Poška, A., Ryčkov, A., Verbickienė, J., & Giordano, A. (n.d.). Border Control Infrastructure Creation at the Border of the Grand Duchy of Lithuania and Prussia in the Second Half of the 18th Century. East European History.

Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2023). Map silences and chronic humanitarian crises: Spatial patterns of migrant mortality in South Texas, 2009–2020. Forensic Science International, 353, 111861. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111861

Anderson, C., & Giordano, A. (n.d.). Emotional Landscapes of Holocaust Evasion Explored through Spatial Interpolation. Full Paper to Be Published in “Transactions in GIS” in 2024.

Choi, Y., & Giordano, A. (2023). The Texas Historical Markers Program: Racial and Ethnic Narratives. Geographies, (3), 779–800. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/geographies3040042

Choi, Y., Giordano, A., & Hagelman, R. (2023). Disasters Worth Remembering: Stories of Destruction and Reconstruction as Told in the Texas Official Historical Markers. Geographical Review, 114(4), 405–425. https://doi.org/10.1080/00167428.2023.2279118

Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2023). Map silences and chronic humanitarian crises: Spatial patterns of migrant mortality in South Texas, 2009–2020. Forensic Science International, 353. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2023.111861

Swienton, H. A., Giordano, A., & Hagelman III, R. R. (2023). What Do Children Draw When Asked to Draw a Map? Results of a Mental Map Experiment. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 58(3), 116–143. https://doi.org/10.3138/cart-2022-0016

Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2022). Digital Mapping. In Doing Spatial History (pp. 274–287). UK: Routledge.

Giordano, A., Cole, T., & Le Noc, M. (2022). Social Networks in Space and Time: A Visualization and Analytical Model. Transactions in GIS. Retrieved from https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12938

Giordano, A. (2022). Towards Interdisciplinarity: The Relationship between GIS/GIScience/Cartography and Human Geography. In Handbook of Methodologies in Human Geography. UK: Routledge.

Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2022). Towards Humanitarian GIScience: Myriad Maps in an Applied Forensic Humanitarian Context. Retrieved from https://cartogis.org/autocarto/autocarto-2022/program/presentations

Giordano, A., Cole, T., & Le Noc, M. (2022). Spatial social networks for the humanities: A visualization and analytical model. Transactions in GIS, 26(4), 1683–1702. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12938

Knowles, A., Jaskot, P., Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2021). Mind the Gap: Reading Across the Holocaust Testimonial Archive. In Lessons and Legacies XIV: The Holocaust, Digital Humanities and Cultural History. USA: Northwestern University Press.

Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2021). Geographies of rescue: Spatial patterns and social geographies of Jewish rescue in Budapest, 1944. Journal of Historical Geography, 71(January 2021), 63–72.

Giordano, A. (2021). La geografía en la narrativa. Visualización de datos, genocidios y ciencias forenses (“Geography is inside narratives”: Data visualization, genocide studies, and forensic anthropology). In NUEVAS TECNOLOGÍAS EN BÚSQUEDA FORENSE: Recursos para la crisis de desapariciones en México (pp. 178–189). Mexico City, Mexico: EAAF and CEDEHM.

Giordano, A., Verbickienė, J., Jakulis, M., Ryčkov, A., Poška, A., Teiler, V., & Cole, T. (2021). Mapping geohistorical narratives: The Grand Duchy of Lithuania borderlands infrastructures project, 18th century. In Proceedings of the 2021 International Cartographic Conference.

Swienton, H., & Giordano, A. (2021). Children’s cartography: what is a map according to children? In Proceedings of the 2021 International Cartographic Conference.

Giordano, A., & Verbickienė, J. (2021). Identifying and Reconstructing the Network of Jewish Rented Inns along the Border of Prussia and the Grand Duchy of Lithuania.

Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2021). Digital mapping. In Doing Spatial History (pp. 274–287). Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429291739-19

Cole, T., & Giordano, A. (2021). Geographies of Holocaust rescue: Spatial patterns and social geographies of Jewish rescue in Budapest, 1944. Journal of Historical Geography, 71, 63–72. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2020.12.002

Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2020). Text mining and semantic triples: Spatial analyses of text in applied humanitarian forensic research. Digital Geography and Society, 1, 100005. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.diggeo.2020.100005

Miranker, M., & Giordano, A. (2020). Text Mining and Semantic Triples: Spatial Analyses of Text in Applied Humanitarian Forensic Research. Digital Geography and Society.

Le Noc, M., Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2020). The Geography of the Holocaust in Italy: Spatiotemporal Patterns of Arrests for Families and Individuals and a Conceptual Model. The Professional Geographer, 72(4), 575–585. https://doi.org/10.1080/00330124.2020.1758572

Miranker, M., Giordano, A., & Spradley, K. (2020). Phase II spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International, 314, 110392. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110392

Miranker, M., Giordano, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2020). Phase II spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International. https://doi.org/0.1016/j.forsciint.2020.110392

Le Noc, M., Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2020). The Geography of the Holocaust in Italy: Spatio-Temporal Patterns of Arrest for Families and Individuals. The Professional Geographer.

Andris, C., Ayers, E., Grossner, K., Hu, Y., Hart, K., Thatcher, J., … Giordano, A. (2020). Panel Paper: Towards Geospatial Humanities: Reflections from Two Panels. International Journal of Humanities and Arts Computing, 14(1–2), 6–26. https://doi.org/10.3366/ijhac.2020.0242

Clio, A., Edwards, A., Karl, G., Yingjie, H., Kathy, H., James, T., … Giordano, A. (2020). Towards the Geospatial Humanities: Reflections from Two Panels. International Journal of the Humanities and Arts Computing.

Giordano, A., Shaw, S.-L., & Sinton, D. (2020). The Geospatial Humanities: Transdisciplinary Opportunities: Introduction to the Special Issue. International Journal of the Humanities and Arts Computing.

Giordano, A. (Ed.). (2020). In The Geospatial Humanities: Transdisciplinary Opportunities (p. 252). Edinburgh, UK: Edinburgh University Press.

Giordano, A. (2019). Cartographies of Genocide.

Giordano, A. (2019). GIS and the Digital Humanities. In Geographic Information Science & Technology Body of Knowledge (Q2 ed., Vol. 2019). University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGIS). https://doi.org/10.22224/gistbok/2019.2.8

Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2019). Places of the Holocaust: Towards a Model of a GIS of Place. Transactions in GIS, (24(4)), 842–857. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12583

Giordano, A., Kemp, K., & Sinton, D. (2019). Report on UCGIS Activities, 2018 and 2019. In US National Report, US National Committee for the International Cartographic Association.

Giordano, A. (2019). GIS&T in the Digital Humanities. In GIS&T Body of Knowledge.

Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2018). The Limits of GIS: Towards a GIS of Place. Transactions in GIS, 22(3), 664–676.

Giordano, A., & Cole, T. (2018). The limits of GIS: Towards a GIS of place. Transactions in GIS, 22(3), 664–676. https://doi.org/10.1111/tgis.12342

Anderson, S., Giordano, A., Kubiszewski, I., Costanza, R., Sutton, P., Maes, J., & Neale, A. (2017). National Ecosystem Service Mapping Approaches. In Mapping Ecosystems Services.

Giordano, A. (2017). Spatiality of the Stages of Genocide: The Armenian Case. Genocide Studies and Prevention: An International Journal.

Giordano, A. (2017). Migrant Deaths at the Arizona-Mexico Border: Spatial Trends of a Mass Disaster. Forensic Science International, (280).

Giordano, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2017). Migrant deaths at the Arizona–Mexico border: Spatial trends of a mass disaster. Forensic Science International, 280, 200–212. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2017.07.031

Giordano, A., & Spradley, M. K. (2017). Migrant deaths at the Arizona-Mexico border: Spatial trends of a mass disaster, 13–21.

Spradley, M. K., Doretti, M. C., Kovic, C., Canales, E., Miranker, M., Daniell, R. J., … Giordano, A. (2017). Searching for the Unidentified in South Texas: The Forensic Border Coalition (FBC) Cemetery Survey Project (pp. 268–269). Retrieved from https://www.aafs.org/sites/default/files/media/documents/2017_Proceedings.pdf

Giordano, A. (2016). Microhistories, Microgeographies: Budapest, 1944, and Scales of Analysis. In Microhistories of the Holocaust. Oxford, UK.

Giordano, A. (2016). Interview with Anne Knowles, Tim Cole, Alberto Giordano, and Paul B. Jaskot, Contributing Authors of Geographies of the Holocaust. In Probing the Ethics of Holocaust Culture (pp. 240–256). Cambridge, MA.

Giordano, A. (2016). Why Become a Geographer? In Geography for the Curious: Why Study Geography?

Burleson, S., & Giordano, A. (2016). Spatiality of the Stages of Genocide: The Armenian Case. Genocide Studies and Prevention, 10(3), 39–58. https://doi.org/10.5038/1911-9933.10.3.1410

Giordano, A. (2015). A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archeological Record in South Africa. Journal of African Archeology, 167–185.

Giordano, A. (2015). Cartographic Constructs: A Case Study of Nantucket Oral Histories. The Professional Geographer, 541–554.

Giordano, A. (2015). Extending Metadata Standards for Historical GIS Research: A Case Study of the Holocaust in Budapest and the Armenian Genocide in Turkey. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 88–109.

Giordano, A. (2015). . Comité Européen des Responsables de la Cartographie Officielle (European Committee of Representatives for Official Mapping; International). The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Centur, 266–267.

Giordano, A. (2015). Istituto Geografico De Agostini (Geographical Institute De Agostini; Italy). The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, 696–699.

Giordano, A. (2015). Military Mapping by Italy. The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, 921–924.

Giordano, A. (2015). Geographic Information Systems (GIS) Software. The History of Cartography, Volume 6: Cartography in the Twentieth Century, 1438–1483.

Giordano, A. (2015). The Holocaust Geographies Collaborative: 2007-2014.

Sampson, C. G., Moore, V., Bousman, C. B., Stafford, B., Giordano, A., & Willis, M. (2015). A GIS Analysis of the Zeekoe Valley Stone Age Archaeological Record in South Africa. Journal of African Archaeology, 13(2), 167–185. https://doi.org/10.3213/2191-5784-10277

Burleson, S., & Giordano, A. (2015). Extending Metadata Standards for Historical GIS Research. International Journal of Applied Geospatial Research, 6(4), 88–109. https://doi.org/10.4018/ijagr.2015100105

Giordano, A. (2014). Geographies of the Holocaust. Indiana University Press.

Giordano, A. (2014). Geographies of the Holocaust. In Geographies of the Holocaust (pp. 1–17). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Giordano, A. (2014). . Retracing the “Hunt for Jews”: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis of Arrests during the Holocaust in Italy. In Geographies of the Holocaust (pp. 52–86). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Giordano, A. (2014). Bringing the Ghetto to the Jew: The Shifting Geography of the Budapest Ghetto. In Geographies of the Holocaust (pp. 52–86). Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press.

Giordano, A. (2014). Rethinking Segregation in the Ghetto: Invisible Walls and Social Networks in the Dispersed Ghetto in Budapest, 1944. In Lessons and Legacies X: Expanding Perspectives on the Holocaust in a Changing World (pp. 265–291). Evanston, IL: Northwestern University Press.

Giordano, A. (2014). Academic Transitions: The Perspective of a (first-year) Chair. The Southwestern Geographer.

Giordano, A. (2014). . Charting the World with Testimony: A New Methodology. Past Forward: The Digest of USC Shoah Foundation, 16–18.

Spradley, M. K., Hamilton, M. D., & Giordano, A. (2012). Spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International, 219, 57–63.

Giordano, A. (2012). Spatial Patterning of Vulture Scavenged Human Remains. Forensic Science International, 57–63.

Spradley, M. K., Hamilton, M. D., & Giordano, A. (2012). Spatial patterning of vulture scavenged human remains. Forensic Science International, 219(1–3), 57–63. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2011.11.030

Giordano, A. (2011). The Geography of Language Shift: A Quantitative Cemetery Study in the Texas Czech Community. The Southwestern Geographer.

Giordano, A. (2011). Positional Accuracy, Positional Uncertainty, and Feature Change Detection in Historical Maps: Results of an Experiment. Computers, Environment, and Urban Systems, 452–463.

Giordano, A. (2011). Fragments from Many Pasts: Layering the Toponymic Tapestry of Milan. Journal of Historical Geography, 370–384.

Giordano, A. (2011). On Place and Space: Calculating Social and Spatial Networks in the Budapest Ghetto. . . Transactions in GIS, 143–170.

Tucci, M., & Giordano, A. (2011). Positional accuracy, positional uncertainty, and feature change detection in historical maps: Results of an experiment. Computers, Environment and Urban Systems, 35(6), 452–463. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.compenvurbsys.2011.05.004

Tucci, M., Ronza, R. W., & Giordano, A. (2011). Fragments from many pasts: layering the toponymic tapestry of Milan. Journal of Historical Geography. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jhg.2011.02.001

Giordano, A. (2010). Spatial Analysis and Geovisualization to Reveal Urban Changes: Milan, Italy, 1737-2005. Cartographica, 47–63.

Giordano, A. (2010). How Near is Near? The Distance Perceptions of Residents of a Nuclear Emergency Planning Zone. Environmental Hazards, 167–182.

Giordano, A. (2010). Using Dasymetric Mapping to Identify Communities at Risk from Hazardous Waste Generation in San Antonio, Texas. Urban Geography, 623–647.

Cox, G., Giordano, A., & Juge, M. L. (2010). The Geography of Language Shift: A Quantitative Cemetery Study in the Texas Czech Community. Southwestern Geographer, 14, 3--22.

Giordano, A., & Cheever, L. (2010). Using Dasymetric Mapping to Identify Communities at Risk from Hazardous Waste Generation in San Antonio, Texas. Urban Geography, 31(5), 623–647. https://doi.org/10.2747/0272-3638.31.5.623

Giordano, A., Anderson, S., & He, X. (2010). How near is near? The distance perceptions of residents of a nuclear emergency planning zone. Environmental Hazards, 9(2), 167–182. https://doi.org/10.3763/ehaz.2010.0031

Tucci, M., Giordano, A., & Ronza, R. W. (2010). Using Spatial Analysis and Geovisualization to Reveal Urban Changes: Milan, Italy, 1737–2005. Cartographica: The International Journal for Geographic Information and Geovisualization, 45(1), 47–63. https://doi.org/10.3138/carto.45.1.47

Giordano, A. (2009). The Geography of the Holocaust. The Geography of the Holocaust, 563–5774.

Beorn, W., Cole, T., Gigliotti, S., Giordano, A., Holian, A., Jaskot, P. B., … Steiner, E. B. (2009). Geographies Of The Holocaust. Geographical Review, 99(4), 563–574. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1931-0846.2009.tb00447.x

Giordano, A., & Wisniewski, L. (2008). Teaching Cartography on the Web with a Multimedia GIS: A New Solution. In Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography (pp. 219–238). Germany: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-72029-4_15

Giordano, A. (2008). Wireless Mapping, GIS, and Learning about the Digital Divide: A Classroom Experience. The Journal of Geography, 285–295.

Giordano, A. (2007). Civil War Maps of the Battle of Stones River: History and the Modern Landscape. The Cartographic Journal, 55–70.

Giordano, A. (2007). Chagas Disease in Texas: Realizing the Significance and Implications of Evidence in the Literature. Social Science & Medicine, 60–79.

Giordano, A. (2007). The Locations of Employment Services and People with Disabilities in the United States. A Geographical Analysis of Accessibility. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 88–97.

Metzel, D. S., & Giordano, A. (2007). Locations of Employment Services and People With Disabilities. Journal of Disability Policy Studies, 18(2), 88–97. https://doi.org/10.1177/10442073070180020501

Hanford, E. J., Zhan, F. B., Lu, Y., & Giordano, A. (2007). Chagas disease in Texas: Recognizing the significance and implications of evidence in the literature. Social Science & Medicine, 65(1), 60–79. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.socscimed.2007.02.041

Giordano, A., & Nolan, T. (2007). Civil War Maps of the Battle of Stones River: History and the Modern Landscape. The Cartographic Journal, 44(1), 55–70. https://doi.org/10.1179/000870407x173850

Giordano, A. (2006). Does Local Access to Employment Services Reduce Unemployment? A GIS analysis of One-Stop Career Centers. Policy Sciences, 335–359.

Giordano, A. (2006). GIS for Texas-Mexico Border Environmental Health Tracking. A Preliminary Study of Data. In Border Health Initiative Project, Project Data Report 2.

Giordano, A. (2005). Computer-Based Mapping. In Encyclopedia of Social Measurement (pp. 411–417). Elsevier. https://doi.org/10.1016/b0-12-369398-5/00339-x

Giordano, A. (2005). The People and the Plan: Intended Reactions to a Nuclear Emergency in New York State. Risk Management: An International Journal, 41–56.

Giordano, A. (2005). Geographic Information System (GIS) as a Tool for Disease Surveillance and Environmental Health Research (pp. 1465–1470).

Giordano, A. (2005). Initial Database Development for a Border Disease Surveillance System in Relation to Migrating Workers, Disease Vectors, and Drug Resistant Disease in the Mexico-Texas Border Region. In Border Health Initiative Project.

Giordano, A. (2005). The People and the Plan: Intended Reactions to a Nuclear Emergency in New York State. Risk Management, 7(3), 41–56. https://doi.org/10.1057/palgrave.rm.8240218

Giordano, A. (2003). Historical Geoinformation on the Web: Lessons Learned from the Chapter 91 Pilot Project. In Maps and the Internet (pp. 319–330). Elsevier, Amsterdam.

Giordano, A. (2003). Geographic Information Technologies and the History of a Shoreline: the Case of Chapter 91 in New Bedford, Massachusetts. The Professional Geographer, 329–342.

Giordano, A. (2001). Integration of Multimedia Cartography, GPS, and GIS to Evaluate Environmental Policies: Results of a Pilot Project in Massachusetts (pp. 1220–1228).

Giordano, A. (2000). Roman Contributions to Modern Cartography, from Itinerary Maps to Geographic Information Systems.

Giordano, A. (1998). GIS in New York State County Emergency Management Offices: User Assessment. Applied Geographic Studies, 95–109.

Giordano, A. (1998). A GIS for Nuclear Emergency Response: The View from Oswego County, New York.

Monmonier, M., & Giordano, A. (1998). GIS in New York State county emergency management offices: User assessment. Applied Geographic Studies, 2(2), 95–109. https://doi.org/10.1002/(sici)1520-6319(199822)2:2<95::aid-ags2>3.0.co;2-m

Giordano, A. (1996). Gli Aspetti Sociali dell’Utilizzo dei Sistemi Informativi Geografici: Riflessioni su Possibili Direzioni di Sviluppo dei SIG [The Social Aspects of Geographic Information Systems: Reflections on Possible Future Developments of GIS]. Geotema, 19–26.

Giordano, A. (1996). ACT-VILL Project Study C: The Development of Inter- and Intra-Urban Networks. In Case Study 4: GIS Networks. Bruxelles, Belgium.

Giordano, A. (1995). Specialist Meeting Report. Data Quality. Lisbon, Portugal, 5-9 July 1995. GISDATA Newsletter, 14–19.

Giordano, A. (1995). . Modellierung und Normierung von Datenqualität im GIS [Standardization and Modeling of Data Quality in GIS].

Giordano, A. (1995). Developing a Practical Model for the Quality of Geographic Information.

Giordano, A. (1995). Geographic Information - Data Description - Quality. Draft. In European Committee for Standardization (CEN) Central Secretariat.

Giordano, A. (1994). Il Controllo di Qualità nei Sistemi Informativi Territoriali [Quality Control in Geographic Information Systems]. Il Cardo Editore.

Giordano, A. (1994). A Conceptual Model of GIS-Based Spatial Analysis. Cartographica, 44–57.

Giordano, A. (1994). A Handbook and Multimedia Support Tool to Aid the Assessment of Data Quality Issues in GIS Databases. In European Geographic Information Systems Foundation (pp. 426–433).

Giordano, A. (1992). Experiential Realism: a New Paradigm for Cartographic Language? In Paysage et Crise de la Lisibilité. Lausanne, Switzerland.

Giordano, A. (1991). Atlante Tematico d’Italia [National Atlas of Italy]. Touring Club Italiano/Italian National Research Council.