Professor Zofia Stemplowska
Asa Briggs Fellow & Tutor in Politics
Professor of Political Theory
Education
MA MPhil DPhil (Oxford)
I joined Oxford in September 2012 from Warwick where I was Associate Professor of Political Theory. Before that I was Lecturer in Political Philosophy at Reading and at Manchester and a Barbara McCoy Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. I studied PPE at New College and completed my MPhil and DPhil at Nuffield College. I grew up in Warsaw.
Undergraduate: tutorials in Political Theory (Prelims and the core Honours paper) and Advanced Paper in Theories of Justice.
Graduate: optional MPhil Mitigating Historical Injustice class; core MPhil/MSc Reasoning in Political Philosophy class; core MPhil/MSc Political Theory class.
I am mostly interested in the problem of what people owe to each other as a matter of domestic, global and historical (post war) justice including commemoration and remembrance. I am also interested in the debate about ideal and nonideal theory: the problem of how to make theories of justice relevant to urgent, real world problems while avoiding ad hoc theorising and defeatism.