Welcome! I’m Benjamin Stumpf, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography at Eastern Connecticut State University. I am a political theorist researching climate change, social movements, and the carceral state, with particular attention to questions of class, colonialism, gender, and race. My scholarship explores the resources of historical and contemporary struggles to illuminate the possibilities of democratic transformation, ecological sustainability, and solidarity in the global present. I explored these themes in my dissertation “Policing the Climate: Ecological Crisis, Cop City, and Forest Futures in the Post-2020 Conjuncture.” My writing can be found in Abusable Past, Black Issues in Philosophy, Philosophy and Global Affairs, Security in Context, and Radical Philosophy Review. I received my Ph.D. from the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut, with a certificate in Intersectional, Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, in 2026.
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
"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/
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