EDUCATION
Ph.D. Sociology, Florida State University, 2008
M.S. Sociology, Florida State University, 2002
B.A. English writing, Denison University, Magna Cum Laude, 1996
AREAS OF RESEARCH
Immigration Policy, International Migration, Race & Ethnicity, Immigrant Identity, Religion, Transnational Studies, Research Methods
CURRENT ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
RESEARCHER, Wellesley College LECTURER, University of Massachusetts, Boston
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
Tighe, Elizabeth, David Livert, Melissa Barnett and Leonard Saxe. Forthcoming. “Cross-
Survey Analysis to Estimate Low Incidence Religious Groups.” Sociological Methods & Research.
Peggy Levitt, Nancy A. Khalil and Melissa Barnett. Forthcoming. “Learning to Pray—
Religious Socialization Across Generations and Borders” in Mobile Bodies, Mobile Souls edited by Karen Fog Olwig and Mikkel Rytter. Aarhus, Denmark: Aarhus University Press.
Barnett, Melissa. 2009. “September 11: Policies of Noncitizen Exclusion” in Battleground:
Immigration, edited by Judith A. Warner. Westport, CT: Greenwood Publishing.