Dr. Alberto Giordano is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at Texas State University. He started his professional career in Italy working as a cartographer and as a GIS analyst and designer for private and public organizations. His early research focused on the application of Geographic Information Science methods to historical cartography, policy analysis, and human geography. In 2007, Alberto joined Tim Cole and Anne Knowles in organizing the interdisciplinary research group now called the Holocaust Geographies Collaborative, and was a co-editor of the group’s first book, Geographies of the Holocaust (2014). In the past ten years, his research has focused on the geography of Holocaust and genocide and on spatial forensics. For his Holocaust research, Alberto has been awarded grants and research funding by the NSF, the NEH, and several Holocaust-related institutions. His service includes membership in the International Cartographic Association Commissions on Maps and the Internet and on Spatial Data Quality, the Italian (UNINFO) and European (CEN) standardization agencies, and other national and international organizations. Currently, he is on the board of the National Center for Research in Geography Education (NCRGE), the Race Ethnicity and Place Conference series, and the journal Southwestern Geographer. He is also President Elect of the University Consortium for Geographic Information Science (UCGS). He is affiliated with the Shoah Foundation at the University of Southern California.