MARGARITA A. MOONEY, PH.D. Associate Research Scientist Email: [email protected] Department of Homepage: www.margaritamooney.com Yale University Twitter: @margaritamooney P.O. Box 208265 Blog: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/ New Haven, CT 06520-8265

PROFESSIONAL POSITIONS HELD

Associate Research Scientist, Department of Sociology, Yale University. July 2013-present. Assistant Professor of Sociology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2007-2013. Faculty Fellow, Carolina Population Center. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. 2008-2013. Faculty Fellow, Galapagos Science Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2010-2013.

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Sociology, . 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.

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.” International Migration. Vol. 51 (3), June 2013, pp. 99-112.

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.]

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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

Stephanie Potochnick and Margarita A. Mooney. “The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants‘ Educational Experiences 1990-2002”. Under Review.

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?” Forthcoming 2013 in Religion and Inequality, Lisa Keister and Darren Sherkat (editors), Cambridge University Press.

Margarita Mooney and Nicolette Manglos. “Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive-Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities.” Under Review.

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.

Nicolette Manglos, Margarita Mooney, Kenneth Bollen and Micah Roos. “Relationships with God among Young Adults.” In Progress.

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 2013.

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 Supra- National to Local Engagement.” Pp. 157-174 in Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo, editor. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2006.

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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.

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, , , and Marshall Meyer. New York: Russell Sage Foundation, 2002.

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: 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. 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, , Co-PI. Submitted to the National Institutes of Health. $159,000 over two years. Priority Score: 27. Percentile 17. Submitted in 2012. Pending final funding decision. I am the Principal Investigator and would be in charge of supervising all data analysis and publications.

“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.

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“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, . ($2,000)

Presidential Fellowship for Graduate Studies, Princeton University, 1998-2002. ($12,000)

TEACHING University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2007-2013) • Sociology 089/First-Year Seminar: Applied Social Theory: Towards a Positive Sociology • Sociology/Management 415: Economy and Society • Sociology/Religious Studies 429: Religion and Society (both in class and online) • Sociology 460: Contemporary Social Theory • Sociology 469: Medical Sociology: Positive Sociology of Well-Being • Sociology 891: Sociology of Religion (graduate seminar). • Sociology 950: Political and Cultural Sociology Workshop • Served on 10 Ph.D. Committees • Mentored Three Undergraduate Senior Projects Princeton University (2005) • Sociology of International Migration

BLOG POSTS

Margarita A. Mooney. 65 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 re-

4 posted by First Things Blog and 1 blog re-posted by a Christianity Today blog. October 2011-June 2013. 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/religion- politics/margarita-mooney-on-pope-benedict-xvi-cuba

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-youth- day-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-among- haitian-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/disaster- religion-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-of- strength-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

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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.

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.

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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.

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.

7 UNIVERSITY SERVICE Faculty Residential Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University (2013-present) 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, Section on Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity), 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.

Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2007-Present.

LANGUAGES Native Fluency in Spanish, Fluency French and Haitian Creole. Advanced Proficiency in Portuguese.

REFERENCES

Howard E. Aldrich Douglas Massey Kenan Professor of Sociology & Chair Henry G. Byrant Professor of Sociology and Department of Sociology Public Affairs CB#3210, Hamilton Hall Department of Sociology and Office of Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 Population Research Tel: 1-919-962-1008 Wallace Hall Email: [email protected] Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Kenneth A. Bollen Tel: 1-609 258 4949 H.R. Immerwahr Distinguished Professor Email: [email protected] Department of Sociology CB #3210, Hamilton Hall Robert Wuthnow University of North Carolina Andlinger Professor of Sociology Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3210 Director, Center for the Study of Religion Tel: 1-919-962-7501 Department of Sociology E-mail: [email protected] Princeton University Princeton, NJ 08544 Tel: 1-609-258-4742 email: [email protected]

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