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Alyssa Battistoni serves as Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College, specializing in environmental and climate politics, feminist theory, Marxist thought, and political economy. Her scholarship critically examines capitalism's relationship with ecological systems through interdisciplinary frameworks that bridge historical analysis and contemporary policy debates.
She earned her PhD from Yale University in 2019 and previously held the Environmental Fellowship at Harvard University. Her academic trajectory demonstrates consistent engagement with both theoretical rigor and practical political concerns, particularly regarding climate justice and social reproduction.
Battistoni's research centers on the political economy of nature, exploring how capitalism fails to value nonhuman ecosystems and reproductive labor. Her work interrogates the intersections of feminist theory, Marxist analysis, and environmental crisis, with particular focus on Green New Deal frameworks and the revaluation of care work. She argues that capitalism's fundamental inability to commodify certain natural and social processes creates systemic vulnerabilities that manifest in ecological collapse.
Her recent publications, notably the forthcoming Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (2025), establish connections between theoretical critiques of value formation and practical climate policy. The Google Scholar corpus reveals consistent output across environmental political theory, feminist economics, and Marxist analysis, with increasing attention to state theory and climate governance in the Capitalocene era.
- Environmental Fellow at Harvard University
Battistoni maintains significant public intellectual engagement through co-authoring A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (2019) and regular contributions to The Nation, Dissent, Jacobin, and Boston Review. She serves on the editorial boards of Jacobin and Dissent, demonstrating commitment to bridging academic scholarship and movement politics. Her work consistently emphasizes the need for transformative political-economic alternatives that center both ecological sustainability and social reproduction.
