• 1999 BA in Politics with Development Studies University of Sussex
• 2005 MA in International Relations University of Sussex
• 2012 PhD in Philosophy Freie Universität Berlin
• 2011 - 2012 Associate Lecturer MA in European and World Politics Department of Social Sciences Bremen University of Applied Sciences
• 2011 - 2012 Associate Lecturer Department of Politics JFK Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin
• 2012 (May - June) Visiting Research Fellow Centre for the Study of Social and Global Justice School of Politics and International Relations University of Nottingham
• 2012 - 2013 Postdoctoral Associate The Program in Literature Duke University
• 2013 - 2014 Associate Lecturer Department of Politics JFK Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin
• 2014 (July - Oct.) Postdoctoral Associate The Program in Literature Duke University
• 2015 (Jan. - July) Postdoctoral Associate The Program in Literature Duke University
• 2015 - 2016 Associate Lecturer Department of Politics JFK Institute for North American Studies Freie Universität Berlin
• 2016 (Feb. - April) Lecturer in Feminist Thought and Global Justice Department of Politics and International Relations Cardiff University
• 2016 (Nov.) - Visiting Scholar (Gastwissenschaftler) Institute for Philosophy and Art Theory Leuphana University Lüneburg

• Queer, Feminist and Critical Theory
• Labour and Gender
• Social Reproduction
• Sexuality Studies
• Social Movements

Articles

• Trott, Ben (2017): Affective Labour and Alienation: Spinoza's Materialism and the Sad Passions of Post-Fordist Work. In: Emotion, Space and Society, Elsevier [forthcoming]
• Trott, Ben (2016): Same-Sex Marriage and the Queer Politics of Dissensus. In: South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 115, Number 2 (Spring 2016), Duke University Press pp.411-423
• Trott, Ben (2014): A Spinozist Sort of Solidarity: From Homo-Nationalism to Queer Internationalism. In: Interface: a journal for and about social movements, Volume 6, Issue 2 (November 2014) pp.224-229 (republished in: Rundbrief für Wissenschaffende/Women in Science Circular Nr. 2 / 2015 (Theme: Queer) Gender Equality Office of the Freien Universität Berlin pp.25-28
• Trott, Ben (2014): Research and the Riots: Politics and England's 2011: Urban Uprisings. In: Reviews and Critical Commentary (journal of the Council for European Studies, Columbia University) From the Precariat to the Multitude. In: Global Discourse: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Current Affairs and Applied Contemporary Thought, Volume 3, Issue 3 (January/February 2014), Taylor & Francis, pp.406-425 (republished in: 'From the Precariat to the Multitude', in: Johnson, M. (ed.) Precariat: Labour, Work and Politics, Routledge, pp.22-45)
• Trott, Ben (2013): Emotionen, Affekte, Feminisierung - Interventionen zur geschlechtsspezifischen Arbeitsteilung heute: In: Binder, B. et al. (Hrsg.): Eingreifen, Kritisieren, Verändern!? Interventionen ethnographisch und gendertheoretisch, Journal Special Issues & Symposia Verlag Westfälisches Dampfboot, Münster S. 104-115

Journal Special Issues and Symposia

• Trott, Ben (2019): The Politics of Reproduction. Special issue of the journal "Spheres: Journal for Digital Cultures". (In Vorbereitung), 5. Auflage
• Trott, Ben (2016): Queer Theory after "Marriage Equality", symposium published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 115, Issue 2 (Spring 2016), Duke University Press
• Trott, Ben (2013): Rebellious Subjects: The Politics of England's 2011 Riots, symposium published in South Atlantic Quarterly, Volume 112, Issue 3 (Summer 2013), Duke University Press
• Trott, Ben (2007): Immaterial and Affective Labour: Explored, special issue of the journal, ephemera: theory and politics in organization, Issue 7.1 (February 2007) [co-editor with Dowling, Emma and Nunes, Rodrigo]

Encyclopedia Editorial Board Member

• Trott, Ben (2009): International Encyclopedia of Revolution and Protest: 1500 - Present, volumes I-VIII, Wiley-Blackwell. [editorial board member, with Ness, Immanuel et al.]

• Political Studies Association
• Women and Politics (Political Studies Association section)
• Sexuality and Politics (Political Science Association section)
• Labour Movements Specialist Group (Political Studies Association section)