Benjamin Stumpf
Ph.D. Candidate
Biography:
I am PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Connecticut. I am scheduled to defend my dissertation in July 2026. Titled Policing the Climate: Ecological Crisis, Cop City, and Forest Futures in the Post-2020 Conjuncture, the project examines the relationship between climate change, environmental politics, and criminalization of dissent in the aftermath of the 2020 Black Spring protests in the United States through an in-depth analysis of the conflict over the construction of a new police training facility in an ecologically vulnerable urban forest in Atlanta, Georgia. I am passionate about teaching, scholarship, community pedagogy, and civic engagement.
Research:
Political Theory; American Politics; Climate and Environmental Politics; Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics; Qualitative Methods; Social Movement Studies; Place-Based Politics; Police and Prison Studies; Political Economy; Political Ecology; Global Southern Politics; Urban Studies; U.S. Foreign Policy; U.S. Political Development
Peer-Reviewed Publications:
Benjamin Stumpf, “Behind Bars in the Belly of the Beast: Red Dragon’s Anti-Imperialist Political Thought,” Philosophy and Global Affairs, Volume 4, Issue 2 (2024): 299-325
https://www.pdcnet.org/pga/content/pga_2024_0004_0002_0299_0325
Benjamin Stumpf, “The Whiteness of Watching: Surveillant Citizenship and the Carceral State,” Radical Philosophy Review, 23, no. 1 (2020): 117-136
Courses Taught:
Introduction to American Politics;
Introduction to Non-Western Politics;
Introduction to International Relations;
Prisons, Policing, Punishment;
Political Theory in Film;
Introduction to Political Theory
Public Writing:
“What is Camp Grayling,” Security in Context (2023) https://www.securityincontext.com/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 |