#  Banu Subramaniam 

Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley

 

 

 



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Banu Subramaniam is the Luella LaMer Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, Banu engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology. Author of *Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism* (University of Washington Press, 2024), *Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism* (University of Washington Press, 2019), *Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity* (University of Illinois Press, 2014), Banu’s current work focuses on decolonizing botany, nativism in plant biology, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.