Diego F. Leal

Associate Professor of Sociology
University of Arizona

School of Sociology
University of Arizona
1145 E. South Campus Dr., 
Social Sciences, Rm. 400
Tucson, AZ, 85721
dflc [at] arizona [dot] edu

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PEER-REVIEWED BOOK

Roll, David, Maria C. Robayo, Diego F. Leal, Enrique Serrano, Jessica Rodríguez, Juan C. Escamilla. 2014. The Latin American Diaspora in Spain, 1997 – 2007. Bogotá: Editorial Universidad del Rosario. (In Spanish). [buy online]

PEER-REVIEWED ARTICLES, SELECTED LIST **see CV for full list** († = senior corresponding author)

Leal, Diego F. 2026. "Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries," Sociological Methods & Research 55(2): 754-792. [pdf] [online appendix] [data & code] [R package]

Cruz-Jiménez, Lizeth, Kevin A. Carson, James F. Thrasher, Katia Gallegos-Carrillo, Dèsirée Vidaña-Pérez, Diego F. Leal.† 2026. "Social Network Determinants of Cigarette Forgoing and Quit-Related Conversations in a 15-Day Ecological Momentary Assessment Study in Mexico and the US," Tobacco Use Insights (19): 1-12. [pdf] [online appendix]

Leal, Diego F. and Natalie L. Cadwalader. 2025. "Enforced Disappearance as a Border Management Tool: The Case of Border Patrol Detentions of Immigrant and Asylum-Seeking Families in the United States," Journal on Migration and Human Security 13(2): 234-256 [pdf] [online appendix & instrument]

Leal, Diego F. and Nicolas L. Harder. 2023. "Migration Networks and the Intensity of Global Migration Flows, 1990–2015," Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 49(2): 445-464 [pdf] [online appendix & data] [code]

Leal, Diego F. 2021. "Network Inequalities and International Migration in the Americas," American Journal of Sociology 126(5): 1067-1126. [pdf] [online appendix & data] [code]

James S. Coleman Outstanding Article Award, section on Decision-Making, Social Networks, and Society of the American Sociological Association.

Kitts, James A. and Diego F. Leal. 2021. "What is(n’t) a Friend? Dimensions of the Friendship Concept among Adolescents," Social Networks 66: 161-170. [pdf]


OTHER PUBLICATIONS, SELECTED LIST **see CV for full list**

Leal, Diego F. and Natalie Cadwalader. 2025. Policy Report: Enforced Disappearance as Border Managing Tool in the US. Center for Migration Studies & University of Arizona Binational Migration Institute. [link]


SOFTWARE

dream: Dynamic Relational Event Analysis and Modeling. R package with optimized functions to estimate relational event models (REMs) for large event sequence data (With Kevin A. Carson). [CRAN link] CRAN downloads for dream