> Ph.D. Geography, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill
> MSc Geography, University of the Philippines
> BS Geography, University of the Philippines

> Cultural geography
> Geohumanities
> Countercartographies
> Geonarratives
> Island and archipelagic geographies
> Film and music geographies
> Geospatial storytelling

> GEOG 245 Island and Archipelagic Geographies
> GEOG 246 Geohumanities
> GEOG 293 Cultures of Mapping and Counter-Cartographies
> GEOG 226 & 173 (Cultural Geography)
> GEOG 242 Special topics on violent geographies, radical & Antipodean geographies, media geographies, cinematic geographies

> American Association of Geographers (AAG) Research Grant 2025 – Storytelling Lifeworlds: Geonarratives and Story Maps
> UP Centennial Professorial Chair, University of the Philippines, 2017, 2021, 2023.
> OneUP Professorial Chair Award for Teaching and Research, University of the Philippines, 2016-2019, 2019-2022

> Storytelling Lifeworlds: Geonarratives and Story Maps, Funded by the American Association of Geographers under Research Grant 2025, February 2025-
> Open geospatial data at the intersection of digital commoning, digital humanitarianism, and digital capitalism: Transformations and tensions in OpenStreetMap, Funded by Martin Luther University – Halle, Germany, June 2023-
> Embodied Ecologies, Funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), University of Amsterdam, July 2022-

> Emmanuel Garcia, Ma. Simeona Martinez & Joseph Palis (2025). Finding your way in the world: Geographic methodologies in the social sciences, in Doing social science research, Vol. 2: Deep-diving into the social science research methods, Quezon City: Philippine Social Science Council, pp. 71-97. https://journals.pssc.org.ph/product/doing-social-science-research-vol-2/ 
> Mylene De Guzman, Ma. Simeona Martinez, Emmanuel Garcia, Joseph Palis, Vanessa Joy Anacta, Jake Rom Cadag, Dominique Sasha Amorsolo, Lou Angeli Ocampo & Darlene Gutierrez (2024). Integrating Service Learning in Geography in Philippine Higher Education, The Pennsylvania Geographer, Volume 62, No. 2, pp. 1-22. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ecs4834FE_4iCOhS9O9vUdU-Rp83O2pM/view 
> Severin Guillard, Joseph Palis & Ola Johansson, (eds.) (2024). New Geographies of Music 2: Music in Urban Tourism, Heritage Politics and Place-Making, Palgrave Macmillan Pivot Series. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-97-2072-9#affiliations
> Uma Kothari & Joseph Palis (2024), Islands, in Routledge Handbook of Literary Geographies, Neal Alexander and David Cooper (eds.), New York: Routledge, pp.  241-250 https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/edit/10.4324/9781003097761/routledge-handbook-literary-geographies-david-cooper-neal-alexander
> Anja Kanngieser, Filippa Soares, June Rubis, Corrinne T Sullivan, Marnie Graham, Miriam Williams, Joseph Palis, Lauren Tynan, Lara Daley, Fabri Blacklock, Beth Greenhough, Sandie Suchet-Pearson, Sarah Wright, Kate Loyd, Uncle Bud Marshall (2024), Listening to place, practising relationality: Embodying six emergent protocols for collaborative relational geographies, Emotion, Space and Society, Vol. 50, pp. 1-10. [101000]. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.emospa.2024.101000
> Clark Akatiff, Deborah Che, Robert Gill, Bill Helmer, David Kaplan, David J Nemeth, Marilyn O’Brien, Joseph Palis, Michael Pretes & Jörn Seemann (2023). Dr Ack Rides Again: Adventures in Radical Geography, Many Small Stories, and a Banjo, Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers, Vol. 85, pp. 93-120. 10.1353/pcg.2023.a913572
> Ola Johansson, Severin Guillard & Joseph Palis (2023). Introduction: Approaching the Spatiality of Popular Music Through Geographical and Interdisciplinary Perspectives, New Geographies of Music 1: Urban Policies, Live Music, and Careers in a Changing Industry, Palgrave Macmillan Pivot Series, pp. 1-14.
> Storying Geography Collective, Sarah Wright, Joseph Palis, Natalie Osborne, Fiona Miller, Karen Paiva Henrique, Phoebe Everingham & Maria Borovnik (2023). Storying pandemia collectively: sharing plural experiences of interruption, dislocation, care and connection, GeoHumanities, Volume 9, No. 1, pp. 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1080/2373566X.2022.2147445
> Joseph Palis (2022). What Becomes of the Broken-Hearted?: Diasporic Melancholia and Geographies of Care in Islands, Pelikula: A Journal of Philippine Cinema, Volume 7, pp. 33-37. 
> Mike Hawkins & Joseph Palis (2022). Geonarrating Subaltern Stories-So-Far, Banwaan: The Philippine Journal of Folklore, 2(1), 121-138.
> Mylene De Guzman, Joseph Palis & Emmanuel Garcia (2022). Living in a Material (Covid-19) World: Covid-19, Materialities, and Quotidian Geographies in the Philippines, Material Culture, 54(1), pp. 23-44.
> Joseph Palis (2022). Geonarratives and countermapped storytelling, in Reimagining Futures: Decolonisation and Doing Development Differently: Routledge Handbook of Global Development, K. Sims, N. Banks, S. Engel, P. Hodge, J. Makuwira, N. Nakamura, J. Rigg, A. Salamanca & P. Yeophantong (eds.), New York: Routledge, pp. 700-712. https://www.taylorfrancis.com/chapters/edit/10.4324/9781003017653-66/geonarratives-countermapped-storytelling-joseph-palis 
> Maria Simeona Martinez & Joseph Palis (2021). Faces, Places: Countermapping Art, Subalternities and Counterpublics, Art & the Public Sphere, 10(2), pp. 185-193.
> Ma. Simeona Martinez & Joseph Palis (2020). Covid Spatialities and Geographies of Care in the Virocene, Diliman Review, 64(1): Special Issue on Dánas/[R]ánas: Covid-19 Experiences of Filipinos, pp. 1-12.