About

Hello! I’m Benjamin Stumpf, Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, Philosophy, and Geography at Eastern Connecticut State University. Specializing in political theory, American politics, and global studies, my research focuses on climate and environmental justice; cultural politics; police and prison studies; labor and social movements; space, place, and power; critical pedagogy; and the history of social and political thought, with particular attention to comparative, Global Southern, and subaltern thinkers and traditions. My scholarship examines historical and contemporary struggles to illuminate possibilities for democratic transformation, ecological sustainability, and solidarity in the global present. My writing can be found in Abusable Past, Black Issues in Philosophy, Philosophy and Global Affairs, Security in Context, and Radical Philosophy Review. I hold a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Connecticut, with a certificate in Intersectional, Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics and a B.A. in Philosophy and Critical Social Inquiry from Hampshire College.

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/

stumpfb@easternct.edu