About

I am a writer, educator, and PhD candidate in political science at the University of Connecticut. Currently, I am writing a dissertation on the relationship between climate change and the criminalization of dissent by analyzing the post-2020 rise of so-called "Cop Cities" in the United States. My research connects contemporary social and political theory; the politics of climate change, environmental justice, and colonialism; prison, policing, and surveillance studies; the politics of race, class, and gender; incarcerated intellectuals; social movements and the state; U.S. cultural politics; and US foreign policy and empire studies. My writing can be found in Abuseable Past, Black Issues in Philosophy, Philosophy and Global Affairs, Security in Context, and Radical Philosophy Review.

Benjamin Stumpf, "Behind Bars in the Belly of the Beast: Red Dragon's Anti-Imperialist Political Thought," Philosophy and Global Affairs, vol. 4, 2 (2025): 299-325

https://www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/pga_2025_0999_1_22_74

Benjamin Stumpf, “The Whiteness of Watching: Surveillant Citizenship and the Carceral State,” Radical Philosophy Review, 23, no. 1 (2020): 117-136

https://www.pdcnet.org/scholarpdf/show?id=radphilrev_2020_0023_0001_0117_0136&pdfname=radphilrev_2020_0023_0001_0117_0136.pdf&file_type=pdf

"What is Camp Grayling, Security in Context (2023)

https://www.securityincontext.org/posts/what-is-camp-grayling

"Policing the Climate," Security in Context (2023) https://www.securityincontext.com/posts/policing-the-climate-benjamin-stumpf

“Why Cop City is a Global Issue,” Security in Context (2023) https://www.securityincontext.com/posts/why-cop-city-is-a-global-issue-benjamin-stumpf

“Outside Agitators from the Civil Rights Movement to Stop Cop City,” The Abuseable Past (2023) https://www.radicalhistoryreview.org/abusablepast/outside-agitators-from-the-civil-rights-movement-to-stop-cop-city/

“Is Language a Battlefield?” Black Issues in Philosophy, Blog of the American Philosophical Association (2021) https://blog.apaonline.org/2021/11/23/is-language-a-battlefield/

benjamin.stumpf@uconn.edu

Twitter: @latecrisis