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MARGARITA A. MOONEY, PH.D. Princeton Theological Seminary Associate Professor Email: [email protected] Department of Practical Theology Homepage: www.margaritamooney.com Princeton Theological Seminary Twitter: @margaritamooney P.O. Box 821, 64 Mercer Street Blog: http://www.patheos.com/blogs/blackwhiteandgray/ Princeton, NJ 08542-0803 Office Tel: 609-436-6278 ACADEMIC POSITIONS Visiting Associate Professor of Sociology, Princeton University. Fall 2017. Associate Professor of Congregational Studies, Department of Practical Theology, Princeton Theological Seminary. 2016-present. Associate Research Scientist, Department of Sociology, Yale University. July 2013-2016. Faculty Resident Fellow, Calhoun College, Yale University, July 2013-2016. 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, Princeton University. 2005. Dissertation Title: “Upward Climb or Downward Slide? Religion and Mediating Social Capital in the Haitian Immigrant Communities of Miami, Montreal and Paris.” M.A. in Sociology, Princeton University. 2000. B.A. in Psychology, Yale University. 1995. PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Office of Population Research. 2005-2007. 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 Margarita A. Mooney. Living a Broken Life, Beautifully. Book manuscript in progress. 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. Awards: Honorable Mention, First Book Award, World Christianity Group of the American Academic of Religion. Articles and Book Chapters Margarita A. Mooney. “Human Agency and Mental Illness.” Journal of Critical Realism. Volume 15 (4) 2016: 376-390 DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14767430.2016.1193675 1 Nicolette Manglos-Weber, Margarita A. Mooney, Kenneth Bollen and Micah Roos. “Relationships with God among Young Adults.” First published online March 17, 2016. (Print publication forthcoming) Sociology of Religion. DOI: 10.1093/socrel/srw012 Margarita Mooney. “Narratives, Religion and Traumatic Life Events Among Young Adults.” Social Thought and Research, Volume 33 (2015), pp. 45-82. DOI:10.17161/STR.1808.18445. Stephanie Potochnick and Margarita A. Mooney. “The Decade of Immigrant Dispersion and Growth: A Cohort Analysis of Children of Immigrants‘ Educational Experiences 1990-2002”. International Migration Review Volume 9 (4) 2014: 1001-1041. DOI: 10.1111/imre.12111 Margarita Mooney. “Virtues and Human Personhood in the Social Sciences.” Pp. 21-44 in The Palgrave Handbook of Altruism, Morality and Social Solidarity: Formulating a Field of Study. Vincent Jeffries, editor. New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2014. 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?” Pp. 289-310 in Religion and Inequality, Lisa Keister and Darren Sherkat (editors), Cambridge University Press, 2014. Margarita Mooney and Nicolette Manglos-Weber. “Prayer and Liturgy as Constitutive-Ends Practices in Black Immigrant Communities.” Journal for the Theory of Social Behavior. Volume 44(4), December 2014: 459-480. Margarita Mooney. “Religion and the Incorporation of Haitians in Montreal.” Pp. 201-217 in Religion in the Public Sphere: Canadian Case Studies. Solange Lefebvre and Lori Beaman, eds. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2014. 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. “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. “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. 2 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. 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 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. 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. 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. Under Review Jessica Hahne, Margarita A. Mooney and Danya Keene. “Self-Medication and ‘Personal Medicine’ as Alternatives to Pharmaceuticals Among American Young Adults with Mental Illness.” 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. 3 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 “Human Flourishing and Critical Realism in the Social Sciences.” Philip S. Gorski, Yale University, PI. Margarita Mooney, Co-PI. Funded by the John Templeton Foundation. $2.5 million. November 2014- October 2017. Duties included: coordinating working groups of scholars on human flourishing, ethnography, and comparative-historical sociology; planning three conferences on causation, human flourishing and research methods; co-teaching four summer seminars on critical realism to graduate students and junior faculty; organizing and moderating monthly webinars on critical realism; writing papers on critical realism and research methods, human flourishing and religion. “A Virtue Ethics Perspective on Stress