I am Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. I work and teach on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in modern social and political thought. 

My academic work has appeared or is forthcoming in the American Political Science Review, Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, Contemporary Political Theory, and Nomos.

I am the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019), with Kate Aronoff, Daniel Aldana Cohen, and Thea Riofrancos. My next book, Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature, will be published with Princeton University Press in spring 2025.

I also write essays, on topics ranging from Bruno Latour to Bidenomics, for the New Left Review, The Nation, Dissent, n+1, Boston Review, and Jacobin. I’m a member of the Climate & Community Project, on the editorial board of Dissent, and a contributing editor at Jacobin.

I’m beginning work on a new project on Marxist state theory and climate change. I’m also currently interested in the tactics of climate activism, theories of freedom, and existentialism.

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