Banu Subramaniam

Banumathi Subramaniam[1][2]
Born 1966
India
Residence U.S.
Alma mater University of Madras, Duke University
Awards Ludwik Fleck Prize (2016), Outstanding Academic Title (2015)
Scientific career
Fields Plant biology, Feminist Science Studies[3]
Institutions University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Doctoral advisor Mark D. Rausher
External video
“Life (Un) Ltd: Banu Subramaniam”, UCLA Center for the Study of Women

Banu Subramaniam (born 1966) is a professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Originally trained as a plant biologist, she writes about social and cultural aspects of science. She advocates for activist science that creates knowledge about the natural world while being aware of its embeddedness in society and culture.[4] She co-edited Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (2005) and Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (2001). Her book Ghost Stories for Darwin (2014) was chosen as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2015 and won the Ludwik Fleck Prize for science and technology studies in 2016.[5]

Early life and education

Banu Subramaniam grew up in India[6] and received a baccalaureate degree from Stella Maris College at the University of Madras.[7][8] She then attended Duke University,[9] where she studied evolutionary plant biology, receiving a Ph.D. in zoology/genetics.[10] Her Ph.D. thesis was Maintenance of the flower color polymorphism at the W locus in the common morning glory, Ipomoea purpurea (1994).[1][11] Interested in the social and cultural aspects of science as they related to experimental biology,[5] she also earned her graduate certification in women's studies.[4]

Career

After completing her Ph.D., Subramaniam held positions at the University of California, Irvine, the University of Arizona, and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she directed a program for Women in Science.[8][7] In 2000, she received a National Science Foundation grant to study soil communities and their effects on invasive plant species.[12] In 2001, Banu Subramaniam joined the department of women's studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst as an assistant professor.[7] She has also been a visiting scholar at Northeastern University (2014-2015).[13][8]

She has co-edited the books Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties (2005)[14] and Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation (2001).[15][16] Her essay "Spectacles of Belonging: (Un)documenting Citizenship in a Multispecies World" draws similarities between the ways in which environmentalists and ecologists talk about foreign plant and animal species and the political rhetoric around human immigration.[17] She is also working on the interactions of religious nationalism and science in India, which she has described as "archaic modernity".[18][19][20][5]

Awards

Subramaniam received the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for science and technology studies for Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity (2014).[5] Ghost Stories for Darwin was also selected by Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries as an Outstanding Academic Title in 2015.[10] This "radically interdisciplinary feminist treatment" examines the experimental practices of science through the histories of eugenics and genetics, and the ways in which historical ideas have informed our thinking about difference and diversity.[10]

References

  1. 1 2 "Rausher Lab". Duke University. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  2. ↑ https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/feminist-science/
  3. ↑ "Feminist Perspectives on Science". Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy. Missing or empty |url= (help)
  4. 1 2 "Banu Subramaniam". UCLA Center for the Study of Women. October 16, 2014.
  5. 1 2 3 4 "Ludwik Fleck Prize". Society for Social Studies of Science. Retrieved 13 February 2017.
  6. ↑ Hammonds, Evelynn; Subramaniam, Banu (March 2003). "A Conversation on Feminist Science Studies". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 28 (3): 923–944. doi:10.1086/345455. JSTOR 345455.
  7. 1 2 3 "Four New Faculty Join UMass Amherst College of Humanities and Fine Arts". News. UMass Amherst. December 13, 2001. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 Blixt, Wesley (March 1, 2016). "Professor to Link Diversity in Biology with Diversities in Cultures in UMass Amherst Distinguished Faculty Lecture". New & Media Relations. UMass Amherst. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  9. ↑ Raja, Masood Ashraf; Ellis, Jason W.; Nandi, Swaralipi, eds. (2011). The Postnational Fantasy Essays on Postcolonialism, Cosmopolitics and Science Fiction. Jefferson: McFarland & Co., Publishers. p. 212. ISBN 9780786485550. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  10. 1 2 3 "Ghost Stories for Darwin The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity". University of Illinois Press. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  11. ↑ Subramaniam, Banu (2014). Ghost stories for darwin : the science of variation and the politics of diversity. Univ Of Illinois Press. p. 266. ISBN 978-0252080241. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  12. ↑ "POWRE: Impact of Soil Communities on Invasive Plant Species in Southern California". National Science Foundation. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  13. ↑ "Past Visiting Scholars". Northeastern University. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  14. ↑ Gleditsch, Nils Petter (March 1, 2007). "Review: Hartmann, Betsy; Banu Subramaniam & Charles Zerner, eds, 2005. Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties. Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield. 266 pp. ISBN 0742549062 (hardback); 0742549070 (paperback)". Journal of Peace Research. 44 (2): 248. doi:10.1177/00223433070440020705. Retrieved 15 February 2017.
  15. ↑ Wyer, Mary (March 2003). "Book Reviews By Londa  Schiebinger. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1999. Edited by Maralee  Mayberry, Banu  Subramaniam, and Lisa H.  Weasel. New York: Routledge, 2001". Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. 28 (3): 1003–1006. doi:10.1086/345327. JSTOR 345327.
  16. ↑ Vries, Petra de (2004). "Review : Feminist Science Studies". Hypatia. 19 (1): 303–305. JSTOR 3810944.
  17. ↑ Subramaniam, Banu; Cummings, Kevin (2016). "Spectacles of Belonging: (Un)documenting Citizenship in a Multispecies World". In Stanescu, James. The Ethics and Rhetoric of Invasion Ecology. Rowman & Littlefield. pp. 87–102. ISBN 9781498538312. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  18. ↑ Kumar, Priya (2008). Limiting secularism : the ethics of coexistence in Indian literature and film. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. p. 13. ISBN 9780816650736. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  19. ↑ Cady, Linell E.; Fessenden, Tracy (2013). Religion, the Secular, and the Politics of Sexual Difference. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 142. ISBN 9780231162494. Retrieved 14 February 2017.
  20. ↑ Bender, Courtney; Klassen, Pamela E., eds. (2010). After Pluralism. ; Reimagining Religious Engagement. New York: Columbia University Press. p. 35. ISBN 9780231152334.
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