Margarita Mooney Clayton, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Congregational Studies in the Department of Practical Theology at Princeton Theological Seminary. She is also a Research Fellow in Theology and the Arts at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University. Her research, writing and public speaking draw on her extensive knowledge of philosophy, theology with the social sciences. She aims to encourage students, readers, listeners, and audiences to think about important questions in culture, education, faith, femininity, suffering and vocation in new and different ways.
Margarita earned a Bachelor’s in Psychology from Yale University and a Master’s and Ph.D. in Sociology from Princeton University. She taught in sociology programs at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Yale University, and Princeton University.