Christopher Peys is an Adjunct Professor working in the International Studies and Language Division of Seaver College at Pepperdine University. He is a Rotary Global Grant-winning scholar and an award-winning educator who holds a Ph.D. and M.Litt. (Master of Letters) from the School of International Relations (IR) at the University of St Andrews (Scotland). Prior to his graduate studies, he earned a B.A. in U.S. and European History from California State University, Long Beach (CSULB), where - for the first two years of his degree - he competed on the men’s basketball team.

As a political theorist with a keen interest in continental political thought and democratic theory, his work revolves around questions of ethics, politics, and the possibilities of political friendship. More specifically, his research is concerned with what it means to care for the spaces and ‘things’ that bind together the public realm of ‘the political’. He is the author of Reconsidering Cosmopolitanism and Forgiveness: Arendt, Derrida, and “Care for the World” (London: Rowman & Littlefield International, 2020).