Berkley Center

Margarita Mooney is Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow in the university’s Carolina Population Center. Her areas of research interest are religion, immigration, theory, tourism, culture and economic sociology. She is currently conducting research on the relationship between religion, resilience, and physical and mental health among young adults, and on the collective enactment of virtue ethics in religious practices. She recently published Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora (University of California, 2009). She is also the author of several book chapters and numerous articles in such journals as Sociology of Religion, European Review of International Migration, and American Journal of Education. Mooney received her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University, and her M.A. and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University.