Ellen Moodie
· Associate ProfessorVerifiedUniversity of Illinois Urbana-Champaign · Anthropology
Active 2002–2026
About
Professor Ellen Moodie is mentioned as a member of the System Credentials Working Group at the University of Illinois System. Her role involves contributing to the exploration and development of non-degree credential offerings across the system, including reviewing existing programs, developing a library of credential categories, and formulating criteria and processes for credential approval. Her participation indicates a focus on educational program development and system-wide credential standards within the context of higher education. No additional biographical or research information is provided in the page text.
Research topics
- Sociology
- Political Science
- Public relations
- Business
- Environmental health
- Geography
- Social psychology
- Psychology
- Economics
- History
- Socioeconomics
- Law
- Law and economics
- Political economy
- Economy
- Medicine
- Virology
- Finance
Selected publications
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute · 2026-04-10
article1st authorCorrespondingBerghahn Books · 2025-11-07
book-chapterCHAPTER 8 “We Don’t Have That Freedom”
Berghahn Books · 2025-12-11
book-chapterProceedings. · 2023-10-03
articleOpen accessCommunity-engaged research partnerships are increasingly used in education research to promote equitable and relevant educational outcomes.One key challenge of such partnerships that is rarely documented is the pre-partnership relationship development phase.This methodological paper reports on the early partnership exploration and formation efforts of an interdisciplinary research team working to build a community-based curriculum materials collaborative for health justice science education in a rural Midwest town.We explicate how we have approached this phase through an epistemological orientation of desire-centered research by integrating methods and stances from community-engaged ethnography with commitments from community-based participatory research.We articulate three main activities shaping this phase of work: (1) Learning about communities' well-resourced networks; (2) Progressive refinement of project foci; and (3) Gauging, establishing, and negotiating trust and capacity.Our situated accounting provides an illustration of how interdisciplinary teams might draw from and navigate across multiple methodological traditions in context-specific ways in working towards equity in education research.
Introduction: Ethnographic Visions of Millennial Central America
Berghahn Books · 2022-10-29
book-chapterSenior authorBerghahn Books · 2022-10-29
book-chapterOpen accessSenior author5. Democracy, Disenchantment, and the Future in El Salvador
Berghahn Books · 2022-10-29
book-chapter1st authorCorrespondingExpert Witnessing in the Asylum Economy
Annals of Anthropological Practice · 2022 · 5 citations
1st authorCorresponding- Political Science
- Sociology
- Political Science
Abstract Homeland Security lawyers routinely ask experts in immigration court cases about compensation for their labor. The suggestion is that if money has been exchanged, perhaps their opinions have been bought. Meanwhile, pro bono offerings can be seen as “activism”—motivated beyond the court‐framed “truth.” Even as I offer many declarations pro bono, I have come to recognize, uneasily, my role in an extended network of coyote types who convey people to safety. In this contribution, I delve into personal discomfort as I consider the expert's position in the political economy of migrant movement today.
Generations and Change in Central America: An Introduction
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · 2020-12-01 · 1 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingAbstract In this introduction we consider generation and change in Central America as part of the celebration of the twenty‐fifth anniversary of this journal. We reflect on meanings of generation, starting with Salvador Allende's 1972 declaration: “To be young and not revolutionary may even be a biological contradiction.” Karl Mannheim's theorization of generation as a cohort sharing formative experiences in particular historical moments, often requiring “wholly new minds,” becomes crucial in our understanding of the concept. To follow Mannheim's claim, we trace histories of Central American political generations in the past half‐century. While our collection uncovers many moments of generational difference and tension—particularly in Nicaragua, Honduras, and El Salvador—we also find that conflicts can be opportunities for dialogue, for forms of mutual engagement, as cases in Costa Rica and Guatemala demonstrate.
<i>La línea, los Indignados</i>, and the Post‐Postwar Generation in El Salvador
The Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology · 2020-10-27 · 1 citations
articleSenior authorCorrespondingAbstract This article analyzes the political emergence of El Salvador's “post‐postwar generation” through a consideration of activists’ relationships to a political and revolutionary “party line,” la línea . This generation comprises people born at the end of, or after, the 1980–92 civil war. They have little or no memory of the war but have grown up in intense violence. The authors worked with members of this generation in distinct sites: in Segundo Montes Community, in a corner of the country once guerrilla territory, and in San Salvador, among middle‐class activists. Their self‐recognition as politically consequential, echoing youth around the globe, first developed through moments of hope—in memory of struggle and in the electoral victory of the party of former revolutionaries—and then through frustration, as those in power, including ex‐guerrilla leaders, resisted opening to new generations and proved themselves as corrupt as their predecessors.
Frequent coauthors
- 43 shared
Jennifer Burrell
HPO Center (Netherlands)
- 36 shared
Michiel Baud
University of Amsterdam
- 36 shared
Bárbara Potthast
- 36 shared
Anthony Hall
University of Cologne
- 36 shared
Rachel Sieder
Centro de Investigación y Estudios Superiores en Antropología Social
- 36 shared
Michiel Clas
Clark University
- 36 shared
Anthony Bebbington
- 36 shared
Bárbara Hogenboom
Labs
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Awards & honors
- Residential fellowship at the Freie Universität in Berlin (2…
- National Science Foundation grant (2010-2013)
- Wenner-Gren Foundation grant (2008)
- Support from Fulbright-Hays
- Support from the Social Science Research Council
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