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Banu Subramaniam is a Professor and Chair of Women and Gender Studies at Wellesley College. She specializes in plant evolutionary biology, feminist science studies, and environmental humanities, with a focus on decolonizing scientific frameworks rooted in colonial histories. Her work critically examines how gender, race, and colonial legacies shape botanical knowledge.
She authored *Botany of Empire: Plant Worlds and the Scientific Legacies of Colonialism*, which explores the intersection of colonialism and botanical science. Subramaniam frequently bridges interdisciplinary scholarship, engaging feminist, postcolonial, and Indigenous studies to reimagine biological frameworks.
In 2025, she delivered a lecture titled *For the Love of Plants: Plant Worlds in the Shadows of Empire* at Washington and Lee University, sponsored by Museums at W&L and the Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander Employee Resource Group.
