I’m a political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. I work and teach on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. 

My academic work has been published in Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, and Contemporary Political Theory. I also write essays and book reviews about the politics of climate, labor, and capitalism for The Nation, Dissent, New Left Review, n+1, the New Statesman, Boston Review, Jacobin, and elsewhere. I am a member of the Climate & Community Project and on the editorial board of Dissent.

My first book, A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal, co-authored with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos, and with a foreword from Naomi Klein, is currently out with Verso.

I’m now working on a book about capitalism and the value of nature, titled Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, under contract with Princeton University Press.

You can email me at abattistoni [at] barnard [dot] edu, and follow me on Twitter at @alybatt.