Her work addresses violence and insecurity in Central America, with a particular focus on social suffering as it is constituted and revealed through talk, mass media, and historical archives. Much of her research has taken place in the postwar ruins of San Salvador, El Salvador, where she has carried out ethnographic fieldwork over the past twelve years. She first arrived there in 1993 expecting to learn about the changes wrought by peace accords. Moodie quickly discovered that talking about peace meant talking about crime and insecurity. She began to explore how meanings of violence and citizens� expectations of the state�circulating in conversation, daily news, and later on the Internet� were transformed in the transition from war. The research yielded her Ph.D. dissertation and now book manuscript, �It�s Worse than the War�: Telling Everyday Danger in Postwar San Salvador.