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 theory. 

My book Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature will be published by Princeton University Press in August 2025.

Other 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.

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

I’m currently beginning work on a new project on Marxist state theory and climate change. (You can read an early paper here.) I’m also currently interested in strategies and tactics of climate activism, theories of freedom, and existentialism.

I received my PhD in political science from Yale in 2019. From 2019-2021, I was a fellow at the Harvard University Center for the Environment. In 2022-2023, I was a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study. I have a BA in political science from Stanford and an MSc in geography from Oxford.

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