She offers courses on social movements, cultural and political rights, immigration, environmental politics, and leads an inter-disciplinary workshop in political ecology. Subramanian is the author of Shorelines: Space and Rights in South India (Stanford University Press, 2009), and is currently completing a book on resource rights struggles in southern India’s fishing economy. Her research interests grew out of political involvement in three different social movements: mobilization around slum dwellers’ rights to housing and other urban resources in Madras City; artisanal fisher activism against domestic and global capitalist restructuring of Indian fisheries; and opposition to Hindu majoritarianism in India and the Indian diaspora. She has held research and teaching positions at the Institute for Policy Studies, and at Cornell and Yale Universities.