Michael Leitner

PERSONAL

Associate Professor
Adjunct Professor, Department of Experimental Statistics, LSU
Adjunct Faculty, Center for Geoinformatics, University of Salzburg, Austria
Department of Geography and Anthropology
Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA 70803
Phone: 225-578-2963 ~ Fax: 225-578-4420
E-mail: mleitne@lsu.edu

EDUCATIONAL BACKGROUND

Ph.D., State University of New York at Buffalo, 1997.

INTERESTS

Spatial Analysis and GIS
Computer Cartography
Europe

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Lebeau, J. L. and M. Leitner (eds.) (2011) Spatial Methodologies for Studying Crime. Special Issue of The Professional Geographer, 63 (2): 161-261.

Leitner, M. and M. Helbich (2011) The Impact of Hurricanes on Crime in the City of Houston, TX: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, (forthcoming April 2011).

LeBeau, J. L. and M. Leitner (2011) Progress in Research on the Geography of Crime. The Professional Geographer, 63 (2): 161-173.

Leitner, M., Barnett, M., Kent, J., and T. Barnett (2011) The Impact of Hurricane Katrina on Reported Crimes in Louisiana – A Spatial and Temporal Analysis. The Professional Geographer, 63 (2): 244-261.

Helbich, M. and M. Leitner (2010) Postsuburban Spatial Evolution of Vienna’s Urban Fringes: Evidence from Point Process Modeling. Urban Geography, 31 (8): 1100-1117.

Leitner, M. and J. Kent (2009) Bayesian Journey to Crime Modeling of Single- and Multiple Crime Type Series in Baltimore County, MD. In Levine, N. and R. Block (eds.) Bayesian Journey-to-Crime Estimation. Special issue of Journal of Investigative Psychology & Offender Profiling, 6 (3): 213-236.

Arden, W. and M. Leitner (2008) The New Medical Geography of Public Health and Tropical Medicine: Case Studies from Brazil. VDM Publishing: Saarbrücken, Germany.

Leitner, M., Kent, J., Oldfield, I., and E. Swoope (2007) Geoforensic Analysis Revisited - The Application of Newton’s Geographic Profiling Method to Serial Burglaries in London, UK. Police Practice and Research: An International Journal, Vol. 8, No. 4, pp. 359-370.

Leitner, M. and A. Skupin (eds.) (2007) Cartography 2007: Reflection, Status, and Prediction. 2007 U.S. National Report to the International Cartographic Association. Cartography and Geographic Information Science, 34 (2): 73-171.

Leitner, M., Mills, J. and A. Curtis (2007) Can Novices to Geospatial Technology

Compromise Spatial Confidentiality? Kartographische Nachrichten, 57 (2): 78-84.

Curtis, A. and M. Leitner (2006) Geographic Information Systems and Public Health: Eliminating Perinatal Disparity. Hershey, PA: Idea Group Inc.

Leitner, M. and A. Curtis (2006) A First Step Towards a Framework for Presenting the Location of Confidential Point Data on Maps - Results of an Empirical Perceptual Study. International Journal of Geographical Information Science, 20 (7): 813-822.

RESEARCH

Louisiana Commission on Law Enforcement & The JFA Institute, Impacts of Hurricanes Katrina and Rita and Public Safety in Louisiana

Austrian Federal Bureau of Investigation, Spatial Crime Analysis and GIS in Austria

Spatial Confidentiality and Privacy Issues

HONORS AND ACTIVITIES

2008-present. Editor, Cartography and Geographic Information Science (CaGIS).

2007. Meredith F. Burrill Award, Association of American Geographers, (with Mills J., Curtis A., Pine J., and B. Kennedy).

2006-present. Editorial Advisory Review Board, IRM Press.

2004-2008. Editorial Advisory Board, Cartography and Geographic Information Science.

2003-present. Editorial Board, Cartographic Perspectives.

2004-2007. Vice Chair, Chair, and Past Chair, Cartography Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

COURSES TAUGHT

Computer Cartography
Map Reading
Methods of Spatial Analysis
Introduction to GIS
GIS and Spatial Analysis
Europe