Leonard, L. (in press). Negotiating doctoral dissertation publications: A reply. Qualitative Health Research.
Leonard, L. (2009). Experiments with 'modernism': The allure and dangers of genital surgeries in southern Chad. Medische Antropologie, 21(1), 93-106.
Das, V., Ellen, J.M., and Leonard, L. (2008). On the modalities of the domestic. Home Cultures, 5(3), 349-372.
Tsui, E., Leonard, L., Lenoir, C., and Ellen, J.M. (2008). Poverty and sexual concurrency: A case study of STI risk. Journal of Healthcare for the Poor and Underserved, 19(3), 758-777.
Leonard, L. and Ellen, J.M. (2008). "The story of my life": AIDS and 'autobiographical occasions.' Qualitative Sociology, 31(1), 37-56.
Grovogui, S.N. and Leonard, L. (2008). Uncivil society: Interrogations at the margins of neo-Gramscian theory. In: Ayers, A. (Ed.), Gramsci, political economy, and international relations theory: Modern princes and naked emporers (pp. 169-187). New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Scott, A., Ellen, J., Clum G., and Leonard, L. (2007). HIV and housing assistance in four US cities: Variations in local experience. AIDS and Behavior, 11, S140-S148.
Leonard, L., Greene, J.L., and Erbelding, E. (2007). Persons, places, and times: The meanings of repetition in an STD clinic. Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 21, 154-168.
Grovogui, S.N. and Leonard, L. (2007). Oiling tyranny?: Neoliberalism and global governance in Chad. Studies in Political Economy, 79, 35-59.
Das, V. and Leonard, L. (2007). Kinship, memory, and time in the lives of HIV/AIDS patients in a North American city. In: Carsten, J. (Ed.), Ghosts of memory: Essays on remembrance and relatedness (pp. 194-217). Blackwell Publishing.
Leonard, L. (2005). Where there is no state: Household strategies for the management of illness in Chad. Social Science & Medicine, 61, 229-243.
Meyers, T., Leonard, L., and Ellen, J.M. (2004). The clinic and elsewhere: Illness, sexuality, and social experience among young African-American men in Baltimore, Maryland. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, 28, 67-86.
Leonard, L. (2003). Possible illnesses: Assessing the health impacts of the Chad Pipeline Project. Bulletin of the World Health Organization, 81, 427-433.
Leonard, L. (2002). “Looking for children”: The search for fertility among the Sara of southern Chad. Medical Anthropology, 21, 79-112
Leonard, L. (2002). Problematizing fertility: ‘Scientific’ accounts and Chadian women’s narratives. In: M. Inhorn, and F. van Balen (Eds.), Infertility around the Globe: New Thinking on Childlessness, Gender, and Reproductive Technologies. University of California Press.
Leonard, L., and VanLandingham, M. (2001) Adhering to the CDC’s travel health recommendations: The experience of Nigerian immigrants in Houston, Texas. Journal of Immigrant Health, 3, 31-45.
Leonard, L. (2000). Interpreting female genital cutting: Moving beyond the impasse. Annual Review of Sex Research, 11, 158-190.
Leonard, L. The adoption of female circumcision in southern Chad. (2000). In: B. Shell-Duncan, and Y. Hernlund (Eds.), Female Circumcision: Culture, Change and Controversy in sub-Saharan Africa (pp. 167-191). Boulder: Lynne Reinner Publishers.
Leonard, L. (2000). “We did it for pleasure only”: Hearing alternative tales of female circumcision. Qualitative Inquiry, 6, 212-228.
Leonard, L., Ndiaye, I., Kapadia, A., Eisen, G., Diop, O., Mboup, S, and Kanki, P. (2000). HIV prevention among male clients of female sex workers in Kaolack, Senegal: Results of a peer education program. AIDS Education and Prevention, 12, 21-37.
Leonard, L., Chatterjee, N., and Ross, M. (1999). Preventing syphilis: Lessons from a survey of two inner-city communities in Houston, Texas. Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved, 10, 362-375.
Leonard, L. (1996). Female circumcision in southern Chad: Origins, meaning, and current practice. Social Science and Medicine, 43, 255-263.