Mo joined the Department of Politics in September 2005. After completing her PhD in December 2003, she held a one year ESRC post-doctoral fellowship at the Institute of Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool.
Her research focuses on issues of violence in post-war societies with particular interest in Central America and Colombia.
She has published about these topics in journals such as Latin American Perspectives; Womens Studies International Forum and Democratization. Her monograph, The Politics of Violence: Gender, Conflict and Community in El Salvador, was published by Wiley Blackwell in 2009. She is currently principal investigator on the Newton Caldas ESRC project Colombia River Stories: improving socio-environmental understandings for building sustainable peace.