Intelligence Analysis, Cultural Geography, and Homeland Security

Cristopher Livecchi, co-author and instructor for GEOG 571: Intelligence Analysis, Cultural Geography, and Homeland Security, joined Penn State’s Online Geospatial Education team in 2021. He has scholarly interests in landscapes of the Cold War, terrorism and historic preservation, and uncanny spaces. Cristopher has a BA in anthropology from Rutgers University, an MS in criminal justice from Northeastern, a MA in geography (SUNY Albany), and a PhD in geography from Penn State, where his dissertation research focused on how military youth construct ideas of home in the context of militarized mobility.

Leanne Sulewski is currently an Analytic Methodologist for the Department of Defense, where she has worked since 2013. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the National Intelligence University, where she has taught since 2017. She received her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in Geography from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 2008 and 2010, respectively. In 2013, she received her PhD in Geography from the University of South Carolina. During her doctoral degree, she was a Higher Education Research Experience fellow at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, where her research focused on building and testing a geographic framework for assessing critical infrastructure vulnerability. Her current research interests include migration, spatial visualizations, and GIScience.