Isaac Stethem is a political theorist at Columbia University. Their research focuses on the politics of sovereignty, territory, and the governance of outer space, global commons, and planetary systems as well as the history of modern Jewish political thought.
Stethem is working on a book manuscript entitled Planetary Peoples: Politics Beyond Sovereignty, as well as several related research projects.
Stethem received a PhD in political science from Columbia in 2025, and also holds a BA (2013) and MA (2016) from McGill University, where they were a fellow of the Research Group on Constitutional Studies.
