Rafi Youatt

Rafi Youatt is an Associate Professor of Global Politics at both the New School for Social Research (NSSR) and Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts within The New School. His research focuses on interspecies politics, ecological governance, and the intersections of borders, states, and nature. He is the author of *Interspecies Politics: Nature, Borders, States* (2020) and *Counting Species: Biodiversity in Global Environmental Politics* (2015). His work examines anthropocentrism, mobility, and planetary politics, with recent projects exploring historical relationships between land, violence, and imperial borderlands.

Education: PhD in Political Science (2007), University of Chicago; MA in International Relations (2001), University of Chicago; BA in Political Science (1997), University of California, Berkeley.

Research interests include international relations theory, environmental politics, and the political dimensions of biodiversity. His current projects analyze species mobility in the context of climate change and the role of non-human actors in political systems.

Teaching includes courses on political space, planetary politics, and critical methods. He co-coordinates the Global Politics Workshop at NSSR and has previously served as an associate editor of the *Journal of International Relations and Development*.

No scientific awards are explicitly listed, but his scholarly contributions reflect significant recognition in his field.