Margarita Mooney is Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. After receiving her PhD in Sociology at Princeton, she spent two and a half years as Research Fellow in Princeton's Office of Population Research. During her time at OPR, she elaborated her dissertation into a book manuscript entitled Faith Makes Us Live, but Misery Divides Us: Haitian Catholicism in the Diaspora (under contract with the University of California Press). The central thesis of this book is that understanding the social impact of immigrant's religious beliefs requires examining church-state relations. Articles based on her research on Haitian immigrants have also appeared in the journal American Behavioral Scientist and in the edited volume Religion and Social Justice for Immigrants. Also while at OPR, Dr. Mooney served as the Project Manager for the National Longitudinal Survey of Freshmen (NLSF). Her co-authored book manuscript based on NLSF data, Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities, is currently under review at Princeton University Press.