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Ellen Moodie joined the solidarity movement for Central Americans in the 1980s. As a student at Indiana University, her participation in social-justice and anti-war movements inspired her to trace links between seemingly 'ordinary' lives in Midwestern towns and events occurring 2000 miles away in Central America. Her experience as a daily newspaper journalist in Hudson County, New Jersey, informs her understanding of the complexities of migration and refugee issues. After traveling to El Salvador in 1993 as part of a sister-cities group, Moodie entered graduate school at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. Her desire to document and denounce war atrocities has led to significant academic contributions, including her book 'El Salvador Aftermath Peace: Crime, Uncertainty, Transition Democracy' published in 2010 which analyzes the aftermath of the 1992 peace accords. She has written for journals such as American Ethnologist and Social Text and has received awards and fellowships from institutions like the National Science Foundation and the Wenner-Gren Foundation. As an Associate Professor, she teaches courses focused on Central America, violence, human rights, and ethnographic methods, actively engaging in fieldwork and research that may involve issues of crime, trauma, and human rights in the region.
University of Illinois • Urbana, IL
Teaches courses on Central America, violence, crime, human rights, and social theory, and engages in extensive research and fieldwork on themes related to post-conflict societies.
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