Department of Anthropology

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Ellen Moodie

Coordinator of Undergraduate Programs, Assistant Professor of Anthropology

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Contact

  • Office:
    Anthropology
    109 Davenport Hall
    607 S Mathews
    M/C 148
    Urbana, IL 61801
  • Phone: (217) 244-7849
  • Email: emoodie@illinois.edu

Education

Ph.D., University of Michigan (2002); M.A., University of Michigan (1997); B.A., Indiana University (1985)

Research Interests

Political subjectivity; structures of social inequality; affect; violence, insecurity and death; narrative and mass media; post-conflict transition; short-term missionization

Field Work Experience

El Salvador, Summer 1994; 1995-1996; 1997-1999; Summer 2003; July-August 2004; July 2005; May-June 2008; July 2009.

Publications

Books

  • Moodie, Ellen. El Salvador in the Aftermath of Peace: Crime, Uncertainty and the Transition to Democracy. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2010.

Book Contributions

  • Moodie, Ellen. "Dollars and Dolores in Postwar El Salvador." Encounters with Money. Ed. Allison Truitt and Stefan Senders. Oxford, U.K.: Berg Publishers, 2007. 43-55.
  • Moodie, Ellen. "Como rastrear al delincuente salvadoreño a través del siglo veinte." Memoria del Primer Encuentro de Historia de El Salvador. Ed. Margarita Silva and Carlos G. Lopez. San Salvador: CONCULTURA, 2005. 225-234.
  • Moodie, Ellen. "El Capitán Cinchazo: Blood and Meaning in Postwar San Salvador." Landscapes of Struggle: Community, Politics and Society in El Salvador. Ed. Aldo Lauria-Santiago and Leigh Binford. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, 2004. 226-244.

Journal Articles

  • Moodie, Ellen. "Seventeen Years, Seventeen Murders: The Production of Post-Cold War Knowledge in El Salvador." Social Text 99.Summer 2009 (2009): 77-103.
  • Moodie, Ellen. "Wretched Bodies, White Marches and the CuatroVision Public in El Salvador." Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology Forthcoming (2009):
  • Moodie, Ellen. " Microbus Crashes and Coca-Cola Cash: The Value of Death in 'Free-Market' El Salvador." American Ethnologist 32.1 (2006): 63-80.