Rate My Professor Banu Subramaniam

Subramaniam's career at the University of Massachusetts Amherst includes key appointments in Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies, where she has advanced interdisciplinary scholarship. She received the Chancellor's Medal in 2016, the highest faculty honor at UMass Amherst for service. Other major awards include the Samuel F. Conti Faculty Fellowship (2022-2023) to complete her book Decolonizing Botany: Empire and the Environmental Humanities, the Michelle Kendrick Prize (2020) from the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts, and the Ludwik Fleck Prize (2016) from the Society for Social Studies of Science. Her influential publications feature Holy Science: The Biopolitics of Hindu Nationalism (University of Washington Press, 2019), which analyzes the fusion of science and religion in contemporary India, and Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (University of Illinois Press, 2014), probing evolutionary biology's racial and gendered narratives. She co-edited Making Threats: Biofears, Biopower, Biopolitics (Rowman & Littlefield, 2009). Subramaniam's scholarship has shaped feminist STS, earning recognition for blending empirical science with critical social analysis, and she has delivered public lectures on decolonizing science and race in representations.