Margarita Mooney

Margarita Mooney is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a Faculty Fellow in the Carolina Population Center. She received her Ph.D. and M.A. in Sociology from Princeton University and her B.A. in Psychology from Yale University. Her areas of interest include religion, culture, immigration and economic sociology.

Her book Faith Makes Us Live: Surviving and Thriving in the Haitian Diaspora was published by University of California Press in 2009.

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