Susana Durão is a CNPq research productivity fellow (level 1D), a Professor and researcher at the Department of Anthropology of the Universidade Estadual de Campinas (UNICAMP), in the graduate program of Social Anthropology and in the graduate program of Social Sciences. She was a visiting researcher at the Institute of Social Sciences from the Universidade de Lisboa (2013-2018), and in the Summer Program of Social Sciences at the Princeton Institute for Advanced Study (2015-2017). Her topics of greater interest are: the governments, policies and practices of policing; national and international police training; security co-production between states, markets and citizens; private security and the imagery of security. She has conducted fieldwork in Portugal and Brazil. She is the director of the international cooperation project “Policiamento e Imaginários Urbanos: Novos formatos de segurança nas cidades do sul” (co-sponsored by Brazil/Portugal, FAPESP/FCT). Her most recent book is "Esquadra de Polícia, Lisboa, 2016".