MARGARITA A. MOONEY
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
263 Hamilton Hall, CB #3210
Department of Sociology
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3210
Updated September 2012
E-mail: margarita7@unc.edu
Homepage: www.margaritamooney.com
Tel: 919 962 4524
Fax: 919 962 7568
CURRENT POSITIONS
Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2007-Present.
Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2008-Present.
Faculty Fellow, Galapagos Science Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010-Present.
EDUCATION
Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University. 2005.
M.A. in Sociology, Princeton University. 2000.
B.A. in Psychology, Yale University. 1995.
PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT
Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Office of Population Research. 2004-2007.
Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University. 2005-2006.
Program Office and Speechwriter, Arias Foundation for Peace and Human Progress (San Jose, Costa
Rica). 1995-1998.
BIBLIOGRAPHY OF SCHOLARLY PUBLICATIONS
Books
Camille Z. Charles, Mary S. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney, and Douglas S. Massey. Taming the River:
Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities.
Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. 2009.
Margarita A. Mooney. Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora. Berkeley:
University of California Press. 2009.
Book Chapters
Margarita Mooney. “Religion and the Incorporation of Haitians in Montreal.” In Religion in the Public
Sphere: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Across the Canadian Provinces. Solange Lefebvre and Lori
Beaman, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. Forthcoming 2012.
Margarita Mooney. “Mediating Institutions and the Adaptation of Haitian Immigrants in Paris.” Pp.
113-134 in Regine O. Jackson (ed). Geographies of the Haitian Diaspora. New York: Routledge, 2011.
Margarita Mooney. “The Catholic Church’s Institutional Responses to Immigration: From SupraNational to Local Engagement.” Pp. 157-174 in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants Pierrette
Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.
Margarita Mooney. “Migrants’ Social Capital and Investing Remittances in Mexico.” Pp. 45-62 in
Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. Jorge Durand and Douglas S.
Massey, editors. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2004.
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Alejandro Portes and Margarita Mooney. “Social Capital and Community Development.” Pp. 303-329
in The New Economic Sociology: Developments in an Emerging Field, edited by Mauro Guillén, Randall
Collins, Paula England, and Marshall Meyer. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.
Refereed Articles (Published in Peer-Reviewed Journals)
Margarita Mooney. “Religion as a Context of Reception: The Case of Haitian Immigrants in Miami,
Montreal and Paris.” Forthcoming in International Migration. 2012.
Margarita Mooney. “Religion, College Grades and Satisfaction Among Students at Elite Colleges and
Universities.” Sociology of Religion. Vol 71 (2), Summer 2010, pp. 179-215.
Deborah Rivas-Drake and Margarita Mooney. “Neither Colorblind Nor Oppositional: Perceived
Minority Status and Trajectories of Academic Adjustment among Latinos in Elite Higher Education.”
Developmental Psychology, Vol 45(3), May 2009, 642-651.
Margarita Mooney. “Structures de médiation et intégration des immigrants haïtiens à Paris.” Revue
Européene des Migrations Internationales. Vol. 24 (1), 2008, pp. 80-114. [“Mediating Structures and
Haitian Immigrants in Paris.” European Review of International Migration.]
Deborah Rivas-Drake and Margarita Mooney. “Profiles of Latino Adaptation at Elite Colleges and
Universities.” American Journal of Community Psychology. Vol. 42 (No. 1/2), September 2008, pp. 1-16.
Douglas Massey, Camille Charles, and Margarita Mooney and Kim Torres. “Black Immigrants and
Black Natives Attending Selective Colleges and Universities in the United States.” American Journal of
Education Vol. 113 (February 2007), pp. 243-271.
Douglas Massey and Margarita Mooney. “The Effects of America’s Three Affirmative Action Programs
on Academic Performance.” Social Problems Vol. 54 (1), February 2007, pp. 99-117.
Margarita Mooney. “The Catholic Bishops Conferences of the United States and France: Engaging
Immigration as a Public Issue.” American Behavioral Scientist. Vol. 49 (11), July 2006, pp. 1455-1470.
Margarita Mooney. “Migrants’ Social Ties in the U.S. and Investment in Mexico.” Social Forces. Vol.
81 (4), June 2003, pp. 1147-1170.
Michèle Lamont, Ann Morning, and Margarita Mooney. “Particular Universalisms: North African
Immigrants Respond to French Racism.” Ethnic and Racial Studies. Vol. 25 (3) May 2002, pp. 367-389.
Under Review and In Progress
Margarita Mooney, Lin Wang, Jason Freeman and Matt Bradshaw. “Does Believing or Belonging have
a Greater Protective Effect on Stressful Life Events Among Young Adults?” Under review for publication
in Religion and Inequality, Lisa Keister and Darren Sherkat (editors), Cambridge University Press.
Nicolette Manglos, Margarita Mooney, Kenneth Bollen and Micah Roos. “A Latent Variable Approach
to Measuring Relationships with God.” Under review at the Journal for the Social Scientific Study of
Religion.
Margarita Mooney and Nicolette Manglos. “Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive-Ends Practices in Black
Immigrant Communities.” Under Review at Sociological Theory (2nd round).
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Matt Bradshaw and Margarita Mooney. “Towards A Unique Model of Fatherhood: The Importance of
Religion and Marriage.” Under review.
Matt Bradshaw, Cheryl Roberts, Margarita Mooney, and Glen Elder. “Financial Hardship, Religious
Resources, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life.” Under Review.
Book Reviews
Review of: Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest
Immigrants. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press. By Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich. Reviewed
for Social Forces. 90 (1): p. 327. 2011.
Review of Churches and Charity in the Immigrant City: Religion, Immigration and Civic Engagement in
Miami. By Alex Stepick, Terry Rey and Sarah Mahler. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press.
Reviewed for Religious Studies Review 36 (4): pp. 301-302. 2010.
Review of: Une Laïcité ‘Légitme’: La France et ses religions d’État. [“‘Legitimate ‘Laicité: France and
its state religions.”] By Raphaël Liogier. Paris: Entre Nous. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology 39
(3): pp. 319-210. 2010.
Review of: Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America. By Nancy Foner (ed.) New York: New
York University Press. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology 39 (1): pp. 33-35. 2010
Review of: The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political
Realities. David Yamane, New York, NY: Roman & Littlefield Publishers. Reviewed for Journal for the
Scientific Study of Religion 45 (2): pp. 305-306. 2006.
Review of: God in Chinatown: Religion and Survival in New York’s Emerging Chinatown. Kenneth J.
Guest, New York: New York University Press. Reviewed for Sociology of Religion 65 (3): pp. 309-310.
2004.
Review of: Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States,
Christian Joppke, Oxford: Oxford University Press. Reviewed for Journal of Ethnic and Migration
Studies 72 (2): pp. 361-362. 2001.
COURSES TAUGHT, FALL 2010-SUMMER 2012
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
 Sociology 089: First-Year Seminar: Introduction to Applied Social Theory
a. Spring 2012: 14 students
 Sociology/Management 415: Economy and Society
a. Spring 2012: 37 students
b. Fall 2010: 27 students
 Sociology/Religious Studies 429: Religion and Society
a. Summer 2012 (Online): 14 students
b. Fall 2011: 41 students
c. Spring 2011: 40 students
 Sociology 460: Contemporary Social Theory
a. Fall 2011: 10 students
 Sociology 891: Sociology of Religion (graduate seminar).
a. Spring 2011: 5 students
 Sociology 950: Political and Cultural Sociology Workshop
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a. Spring 2011: 5 students
Mentored Undergraduate Projects
a. Second reader for Elizabeth Smith’s Senior Project (2012)
b. Second reader for Jessica Dilday’s Senior Project (2011)
GRADUATE STUDENTS MENTORED
Ph.D. Thesis (Sociology)
Shawn Baudlry. “Sources of Heterogeneity in the Effects of Education on Health and Health Behaviors.”
Defense Date: April 3, 2012. Committee Chair: Kenneth Bollen.
Kate McFarland. “Cultural Contestation and Community Building at LGBT Pride Parades.” Defense
Date: March 26, 2012. Committee Chair: Andrew Perrin
Ijlal Naqvi. “Access to Power: Governance and Development in the Pakistani Electrical Power Sector.”
Defense Date: November 14, 2011. Committee Chair: Charles Kurzman
Andrew Payton. “How It Works: Social Relationships, Coping, Mechanisms, and Abstinence in
Alcoholics Anonymous.” Defense Date: April 8, 2011. Chair: Andrew Perrin.
Youn-Ok Lee. “Religious Transformations: Lessons from American Adolescents.” Defense Date: April 6,
2010. Chair: Lisa Pearce
Dan DeHanas. “Citizens of Heaven: Religion and the Immigrant Second Generation in East End
London.” Defense Date: April 20, 2010. Chair: Christian Smith
Ph.D. Thesis (Public Policy)
Stephanie Potochnik. “The Academic Adaptation of Children of Immigrants in New and Traditional
Settlment Communities: The Role of Family, Schools, Neighborhoods and State-Level Polices.” Defense
Date: March 30, 2012. Chair: Krista Perreira
M.A. Thesis
Jason Freeman. “Genes and Behavior in Context: Moral Communities as a Source of Social Control.”
Defense Date: September 22, 2010. Chair: Michael Shanahan
M.A. Proposal
Jane Lee. “Differential Influence of Religion on Setting the Educational Trajectory of Youth by
Socioeconomic Backgrounds.” November 22, 2011. Chair: Lisa Pearce
GRANTS
“A Virtue Ethics Perspective on Stress and Human Flourishing from Youth to Young Adulthood.”
Margarita Mooney, PI. Nicolette Manglos, Williams College, Co-PI. Approved by the John Templeton
Foundation. $603,650. Start Date: July 1, 2012. End Date: June 30, 2015. I am the Principal Investigator
and will be in charge of data collection, publications, and management of all project activities.
“Stress, Religion and Psychological Well-Being in Young Adulthood.” Margarita Mooney, PI. Matt
Bradshaw, Duke University, Co-PI. Submitted to the National Institutes of Health. $159,000 over two
years. Priority Score: 27. Percentile 17. Not funded in 2011. Re-submitted in 2012. I am the Principal
Investigator and would be in charge of supervising all data analysis and publications.
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“Integrated Panel Data from Censuses and Surveys to Study Migration and Other Topics.” Ronald
Rindfuss, PI. Margarita Mooney and Kyle Crowder, Co-Investigators. $275,000 over two years.
Submitted to the NIH in October 2012. I am a Co-Investigator and would assist in data analysis and
research papers related to migration and development in Ecuador.
“Mobility to and within the Galapagos Archipelago.” 2011 Galapagos Seed Grants Program. University
of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Ron Rindfuss, PI. $9,000, July 2011. I was one of three investigators
who traveled to Ecuador to gather preliminary data for a research proposal on tourism, labor migration
and the environment.
Co-Lead Investigator, National Children’s Study, Cumberland County, NC. National Institute of Child
Health and Human Development/NIH, (HHSN275200800029C), Barbara Entwisle, PI, 9/26/08-12/01/09.
I was the local project leader in charge of conducting interviews with community leaders to inform them
of study plans.
Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations Fellowship, funded by the Lilly Endowment, 2009-2010.
($20,000) Funds to support engaged scholarship, such as writing and speaking for broad audiences.
Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. ($7,500) Funds
for data analysis to prepare an external research grant.
Program on Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR), University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill, 2008. ($1,850) Funds for travel related to developing an external research grant.
Summer-in-Residence Faculty Development Program, Carolina Population Center, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. ($20,000) Funds for mentoring to prepare an external research grant.
Louisville Institute Dissertation Fellowship, 2003-2004. ($17,000)
Society for the Scientific Study of Religion Research Grant, 2003. ($2,500)
Center for European Studies Florence Gould Pre-Dissertation Grant for Research in France, Columbia
University. ($2,000)
Presidential Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Princeton University, 1998-2002. ($12,000)
BLOG POSTS
Margarita A. Mooney. 34 posts published by Patheos on the Black, White, and Gray blog
(http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/). 12 blogs reposted by Mere Comments; 2 blogs reposted by First Things Blog and 1 blog re-posted by a Christianity Today blog. October 2011-June 2012.
Approximately 15,000 page views per month.
Margarita A. Mooney. 15 posts published on Margarita Mooney’s blog
(www.margaritamooney.blogpspot.com). September 2009-September 2011.
PRINT AND ONLINE MEDIA
Margarita Mooney. Podcast interview “Margarita Mooney on Pope Benedict XVI & Cuba,” published
online April 23, 2012 by Research on Religion. http://www.researchonreligion.org/religionpolitics/margarita-mooney-on-pope-benedict-xvi-cuba
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Margarita Mooney. “World Youth Day 2011: Insights on Youth Catholicism.” Published online
September 16, 2011 by First Things Blog. http://www.firstthings.com/onthesquare/2011/09/world-youthday-2011-insights-on-young-catholicism
Margarita Mooney. Podcast interview about Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian
Diaspora, published online August 8, 2011 by Research on Religion.
http://www.researchonreligion.org/uncategorized/margarita-mooney-on-religion-haitian-immigrants
Approximately 2,000 listeners August 2011-December 2012.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Another Modernity: Thanksgiving Among Haitian Catholics.” Published online
November 22, 2010. University of Notre Dame, Contending Modernities: A blog about Catholic, Muslim
and secular interaction in the modern world.
http://blogs.nd.edu/contendingmodernities/2010/11/22/another-modernity-the-art-of-thanksgiving-amonghaitian-catholics/
Margarita A. Mooney. Interview given to the National Center for Haitian Apostolate. Published online
June 23, 2010. http://www.snaa.org/article_detail.php?news_id=91
Margarita A. Mooney. “Disaster, Religion, and Resilience.” Published Online February 24, 2010 at The
Immanent Frame, by the Social Science Research Council. http://blogs.ssrc.org/tif/2010/02/24/disasterreligion-and-resilience/
Margarita A. Mooney. “Haiti’s Resilient Faith.” America magazine. Published in print March 1, 2010.
Published online February 19, 2010.
http://www.americamagazine.org/content/article.cfm?article_id=12151
Margarita A. Mooney. “Hope for Haiti Comes from Within: Religion, Resilience, and Recovery.”
Carolina Population Center Research Profile and Interview. Posted online February 18, 2010.
http://www.cpc.unc.edu/news/features/hope-for-haiti
Margarita A. Mooney. “Source of Strength and Renewal.” Letter to the Editor published in The Miami
Herald. Sunday, January 24, 2010. http://www.miamiherald.com/2010/01/24/1441250/source-ofstrength-and-renewal.html
Margarita Mooney. “Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora.” Posted
online on September 22, 2009 on The Public Discourse. http://www.thepublicdiscourse.com/2009/09/898
Margarita A. Mooney “Religious Narratives and the Adaptation of Immigrants.” Posted August 25, 2009
on the University of California Press’s authors’ blog. Accessed on August 31, 2009 at:
http://ucpress.typepad.com/ucpresslog/2009/08/adaptation-of-immigrants.html
Paper “Religion, College Grades and Satisfaction among Students at Elite Colleges and Universities” was
cited in a New York Times Op-Ed Column by David Brooks. May 25, 2007.
Margarita Mooney and Deborah Rivas-Drake. “Colleges Need to Recognize, and Serve, the 3 Kinds of
Latino Students.” Chronicle of Higher Education, March 28, 2008.
Camille Z. Charles, Mary J. Fischer, Margarita A. Mooney and Douglas S. Massey. “Affirmative Action
Programs for Minority Students: Right in Theory, Wrong in Practice.” Chronicle of Higher Education,
March 27, 2009.
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INVITED LECTURES AND CONFERENCES
Margarita A. Mooney "Ecological Impacts of Labour Migration and Tourist Migration on the World
Heritage Site of the Galapagos Islands of Ecuador." Invited talk given at the International Institute for
Population Sciences. Mumbai, India. March 7, 2012.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Using Social Media to Promote Teaching Objectives Inside and Outside the
Classroom.” Invited talk delivered for Educate, Innovate, Collaborate, a one day faculty showcase on
instructional innovation at Carolina. November 4, 2011, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill,
hosted by the Center for Faculty Excellence.
Margarita A. Mooney. "Faith Makes Us Live: Haitian Catholics and the Eucharistic Imagination." Plenary
address delivered as part of World Catholicism Week 2011. DePaul University, April 13, 2011.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Social Media and Scholarship.” School of Information and Library Sciences,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Colloquium Series, March 2, 2011.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Opportunities and Challenges in Engaged Scholarship: Faith Makes Us Live and
the 2010 Haitian Earthquake.” University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Department of Sociology
Colloquium Series, January 25, 2011.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Engaged Scholarship: Researching, Writing and Disseminating Faith Makes Us
Live.” Engaged Scholars Conference. Louisville, KY, November 16, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Examining Religion and Immigrant Integration in Quebec Comparatively: The
Case of Haitian Catholics.” Religion in the Public Sphere: Interdisciplinary Perspectives Across the
Canadian Provinces. University of Montreal, Montreal, Quebec, Canada. November 5, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora.” Rice
University, Department of Sociology, October 19, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Migration and Religion in the U.S. and Beyond: Individuals and Institutions on
the Move in a Global Area.” Advisory Board Meeting for Program on Global Migration and Religion,
Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. October 11, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Religion, Resilience and Disasters: Reflections on the Haitian Earthquake.” Duke
University Center for Spirituality, Theology and Health, Faculty Community of Scholars, May 5, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Immigration and National Identity.” Panel Presentation, sponsored by the Parr
Center for Ethics, the Center for Global Initiatives of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and
the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University. March 25, 2010.
Margarita A. Mooney. “Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora”.
University of Illinois at Chicago, Department of Sociology. October 7, 2009.
PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (2007-PRESENT)
2012. Margarita Mooney and Nicolette Manglos. “Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive-Ends Practices in
Black Immigrant Communities.” Paper presented at a session of the section on Altruism, Morality and
Social Solidarity of the American Sociological Association. Denver, Colorado. August.
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2012. Margarita A. Mooney and Nicolette D. Manglos. “Personalism, Practices and Agency.” Invited
presentation at the Theory Section of the American Sociological Association Annual Meetings. Denver,
Colorado. August.
2012. Margarita Mooney. “Preparing for Tenure at an R-1 University.” Invited Presentation on a panel at
the Association for the Sociology of Religion meetings. Denver, Colorado. August.
2011. “Financial Hardship, Religious Resources, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life.” Paper
Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Washington, DC. April.
2010. “Engaged Scholarship: What is it? What are its opportunities and pitfalls?”
Presentation Given at the Annual Meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion
Atlanta, GA. August.
2009. “Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora”. Paper presented at the
annual meetings of the American Academy of Religion, Montreal, Canada, November.
2009. Respondent (as author) to Author-Meets-Critics Panel on Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and
Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora. The Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Denver, October.
2009. Respondent (as author) to Author-Meets-Critics Panel on Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and
Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora. The Association for the Sociology of Religion, San Francisco, August.
2009. “Religion, International Migration and Acculturation among Older and Younger Immigrants to the
U.S.” Paper presented at a roundtable of the Section on International Migration of the American
Sociological Association. San Francisco, August.
2009. “Religion, International Migration and Aging.” Poster presented at the Population Association of
America. Detroit, Michigan, April.
2008. “Neither Colorblind Nor Oppositional: Perceived Minority Status and Trajectories of Academic
Adjustment among Latinos in Elite Higher Education.” Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the
Population Association of America Annual Meetings. New Orleans, Louisiana, April.
2007. “Faith Makes Us Live, But Misery Divides Us: Haitian Catholics in Miami, Montreal and Paris.”
Paper Presented at the Annual Meetings of the Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Tampa, FL.
November.
UNIVERSITY SERVICE
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Sociology, Colloquium Committee (2010-2012)
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Sociology, Junior Faculty Search Committee (2010)
UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center, Training Committee (2008-2012)
UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Sociology, Social Committee 2007-2010 (Chair 2008-2010)
ASSOCIATION MEMBERSHIPS AND PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITIES
Member of: American Sociological Association (Sections on International Migration, Sociology of
Religion, Section on Aging and the Life Course, Sociology of Culture), Population Association of
America, Eastern Sociological Society, Society for the Scientific Study of Religion, Association for the
Sociology of Religion, American Academy of Religion.
Editorial Board, Sociology of Religion, 2006-2009.
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Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2007-Present.
LANGUAGES
Native Fluency in Spanish, Fluency French and Haitian Creole. Advanced Proficiency in Portuguese.
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