Krzysztof Pelc is the Lester B. Pearson Professor in International Relations in the Department of Politics and International Relations, and Professorial Fellow at St-Anne’s College. He received his PhD from Georgetown University in 2009. Before joining Oxford, he spent his postdoc in the Niehaus Center at Princeton University, and spent over a decade at McGill University. He has been a visiting professor at NYU, the Jawaharlal Nehru Institute of Advanced Studies in New Delhi, and the University of Copenhagen. 

I am an MPhil student in Political Theory studying the nature of, and justification for, equality as a political and social value. My dissertation will examine Hannah Arendt's conception of equality as a commitment in conversation with Black Feminist perspectives from Bernice Johnson Reagon and Barbara Smith, among others.

I am a DPhil Candidate in International Relations at Balliol College, University of Oxford. My primary research interest is the intersection of emerging technologies and (inter)national security, with a particular focus on biotechnologies and bioweapons. I am also interested in the governance of nuclear weapons, artificial intelligence, and other emerging technologies; international cooperation and security studies; as well as biosecurity and pandemic preparedness.