Dr. Tessa Diphoorn joined the Centre for Urban Studies and the Department of Human Geography, Planning and International Development Studies in February 2014. She completed her PhD research on private security officers in Durban, South Africa in October 2014 at the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Utrecht University. Between October 2011-June 2013, she was a Marie Curie Sustainable Peacebuilding (SPBuild) fellow at Sabanci University in Istanbul, Turkey. 

She is currently a post-doctoral researcher within a research project funded by an European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant titled "Public-Private Security Assemblages". This project investigates to what extent security assemblages function as hybrid governance structures, and the implications this has for how different groups enact and experience citizenship. It will examine how urban spaces and populations are governed, and how political subjectivities shift, as a result of these hybrid forms of security provision. Within this project, Dr. Tessa Diphoorn will conduct a comparative analysis of these security assemblages in Kingston, Nairobi, and Jerusalem.

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