Alyssa Battistoni

Alyssa Battistoni is a political theorist and Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics, capitalism, Marxism, feminism, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Her academic work has been published in Political Theory, Perspectives on Politics, and Contemporary Political Theory, and she writes frequently for publications including The Nation, Dissent, the New Left Review, n+1, Boston Review, and Jacobin. She is a member of the Climate and Community Project and serves on the editorial board of Dissent. Alyssa is 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. She is currently working on a book about capitalism and the value of nature, titled Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature.