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MARGARITA A. MOONEY University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill 263 Hamilton Hall, CB #3210 E-mail: [email protected] Department of Sociology Homepage: www.margaritamooney.com University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Blog: www.margaritamooney.blogspot.com

Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599-3210 Tel: 919 962 4524 Updated July 2010 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.

PREVIOUS EMPLOYMENT Post-Doctoral Research Associate, Office of Population Research. 2004-2007. Lecturer in Sociology, Princeton University. 2005-2006.

EDUCATION Ph.D. in Sociology, Princeton University. 2005. M.A. in Sociology, Princeton University. 2000. B.A. in Psychology, Yale University. 1995.

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.

Published (in Peer-Reviewed Journals)

Margarita Mooney. “Religion, College Grades and Satisfaction Among Students at Elite Colleges and Universities.” Sociology of Religion. Vol 71 (2), Summer 2010, 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 (No. 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.

1 Douglas Massey and Margarita Mooney. “The Academic Consequences of America’s Three Affirmative Action Programs.” Social Problems Vol. 54 (No. 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

Matt Bradshaw and Margarita Mooney. “Towards Unique Model of Fatherhood : The Importance of Religion and Marriage.” Under review.

Matt Bradshaw, Cheryl Roberts, Glenn Elder and Margarita Mooney. “Financial Hardship, Religious Resources, and Psychological Well-Being in Late Life.” In Progress.

Margarita Mooney. “Of Secularisms and Immigrant Assimilation: Comparing the U.S., Quebec and France.” In Progress.

Margarita Mooney. “Accommodation or Marginalization? Comparing Religion and the Integration of Haitians in Miami, Montreal and Paris.” In Progress.

Margarita Mooney. “Religion, International Migration and Acculturation among Older and Younger Immigrants to the U.S.” In Progress.

Book Chapters

Margarita Mooney. “Haitians in Paris: Between Dispersion and Organization.” In Regine Jackson (ed). Out of One, Many: The Communities of the Haitian Diaspora. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books. Forthcoming 2010.

Margarita Mooney. “Analyzing Religion and Civil Society Through the Lens of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris.” Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS). Forthcoming 2010.

Margarita Mooney. “The Catholic Church’s Institutional Responses to Immigration: From Supra- National to Local Engagement.” 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.

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.

2 Book Reviews

Review of: Une Laïcité ‘Légitme’: La France et ses religions d’État. [“‘Legimiate’Laicité: France and its state religions.”] By Raphaël Liogier. Paris: Entre Nous, 2006. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology. Forthcoming 2010.

Review of: Across Generations: Immigrant Families in America. By Nancy Foner (ed.) New York: New York University Press, 2009. Reviewed for Contemporary Sociology. Forthcoming 2010.

Review of: Sacred Assemblies and Civic Engagement: How Religion Matters for America’s Newest Immigrants. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2007. By Fred Kniss and Paul D. Numrich. Reviewed for Social Forces. Forthcoming, 2010.

Review of: The Catholic Church in State Politics: Negotiating Prophetic Demands and Political Realities. David Yamane, New York, NY: Roman & Littlefield Publishers. In Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion 45 (2): 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. In Sociology of Religion 65 (3): 309-310. 2004.

Review of: Challenge to the Nation-State: Immigration in Western Europe and the United States, Christian Joppke, Oxford: Oxford University Press. In Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies 72 (2): 361-362. 2001.

GRANTS

Co-Lead Investigator, National Children’s Study, Cumberland County, NC. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development/NIH, (HHSN275200800029C), Barbara Entwisle (PI), 9/26/08-9/26/13.

Engaged Scholars Studying Congregations Fellowship, 2009-2010. ($20,000)

Junior Faculty Development Award, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2009. ($7,500)

Program on Demography and Economics of Aging Research (DEAR), University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008 ($1,850)

Summer-in-Residence Faculty Development Program, Carolina Population Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 2008. ($20,000)

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)

3 MEDIA RELATIONS/ON-LINE ARTICLES

Margarita 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 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 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 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

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.

PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS (2005-PRESENT)

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.

2005. “‘Dèyè Mòn, Gen Mòn’: Religious Mediation in the Assimilation of Haitian Immigrants in Miami, Montreal and Paris.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Philadelphia, PA, (An earlier version of this paper was presented at the conference Migration, Religion and Secularism—A Comparative Approach (Europe and North America), Sorbonne University and École Normal Supérieure (ENS), Paris, France, June.

2005. “Religion at America’s Most Selective Colleges: Some Findings from the National Longitudinal Study of Freshmen (NLSF).” Paper presented at the annual meetings of the Association for the Sociology of Religion, Philadelphia, PA.

2005. “Local-level and Mediating Social Capital in the Haitian Community of Miami.” Paper presented at the Annual Meetings of the Eastern Sociological Society, Washington, DC.

COURSES TAUGHT University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. • Sociology 415: Economy and Society. • Sociology 429: Religion and Society. • Sociology 950: Sociology of Religion (graduate seminar).

Princeton University. • Sociology 339. “Sociology of International Migration.” Lecturer.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE UNC-Chapel Hill Department of Sociology, Social Committee 2007-2010 (Chair 2008-2010) UNC-Chapel Hill Carolina Population Center, Training Committee (2008-present)

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.

Editorial Board, Social Forces, 2007-Present.

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