Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Trained as a plant evolutionary biologist, Banu’s work engages the feminist studies of science in the practices of experimental biology. Author of 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), and coeditor of MEAT! A Transnational Analysis with Sushmita Chatterjee (Duke University Press 2021), Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties with Betsy Hartmann and Charles Zerner (Rowman & Littlefield, 2005), and Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation with Maralee Mayberry and Lisa Weasel (Routledge, 2001). Banu’s current work focuses on decolonizing botany and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.