Leitner, Helga

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Name (Latin)
Leitner, Helga
Other forms of name
Leitner, Helga M
Date of birth
1949-04-29
Gender
female
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 608934
Wikidata: Q58218070
Library of congress: n 82276001
BGU10: 000290597
Sources of Information
  • Helga Leitner; born April 29, 1949 in St. Valentin, Austria; Ph.D., Geography and Planning, University of Vienna, 1978; came to UCLA as a professor in 2012 from University of Minnesota ( (CV, last updated September 2019; viewed September 12, 2024) )
  • UCLA Department of Geography WWW site, viewed September 12, 2024emeriti faculty (Helga Leitner; Ph.D. University of Vienna; professor emeritus; research interests are international migration, politics of immigration and citizenship, urban development & sustainability, global urbanism, urban social movements, and socio-spatial theory; associated with UCLA Geography, Center for South-East Asian Studies, Asia-Pacific Center, Institute for Inequality and Democracy, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, Austrian Academy of Sciences)
  • UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability WWW site, viewed September 12, 2024(Helga M. Leitner; geography subfields: political & urban geography, international migration, immigrant incorporation, politics of immigration & citizenship, urban development and sustainability, urban social movements, and socio-spatial theory; regional foci USA, Europe, and SE Asia)
  • Her Gastarbeiter in der stadtischen Gesellschaft, c1983:t.p. (Helga Leitner) p. 2 (Dr. phil.; Univ. Ass., Inst. f. Geographie, Univ. Wien)

Wikipedia description:

Helga Leitner is an Austrian geographer. She is professor emerita at University of California, Los Angeles. Leitner received her PhD in geography and urban and regional planning from the University of Vienna. She joined the faculty of University of Minnesota in 1985. In 2007, she published Contesting Neo-liberalism: Urban Frontiers. In 2019, she published Everyday Equalities: Making Multicultures in Settler Colonial Cities.

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