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Banu Subramaniam has been awarded the 2016 Ludwik Fleck Prize for the book “Ghost Stories for Darwin: The Science of Variation and the Politics of Diversity” (2014 University of Illinois Press).

The judges wrote, “Offering a narrative that winds as intricately as the morning glory flowers that she studies as an evolutionary biologist, ‘Ghost Stories for Darwin’ engages feminist STS, histories of science, and the myriad efforts to include women as knowledge makers to confront the ghosts of racism and sexism that have limited how, who, and what we can know.”

The Fleck Prize, the oldest Society for Social Studies of Science (4s) book award, honors an outstanding book across the breadth of science and technology studies. It is named for microbiologist Ludwik Fleck (1896-1961), author of “The Genesis and Development of a Scientific Fact.”