Dr. Banu Subramaniam is Professor of Women, Gender, Sexuality Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Author of Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity and coeditor of Feminist Science Studies: A New Generation and Making Threats: Biofears and Environmental Anxieties, Banu's current work focuses on the xenophobia and nativism that haunt invasive plant species, and the relationship of science and religious nationalism in India.