Nidhi Subramanyam

Nidhi Subramanyam is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography & Planning at the University of Toronto, St. George campus. She obtained her bachelor of architecture from the University of Mumbai; a master of regional planning from Cornell University in Ithaca, New York; and her Ph.D. in city and regional planning from Cornell University.

Dr. Subramanyam’s ongoing research investigates how planning, policies, and governance intersect with and enhance water security and environmental justice for socially marginalized communities in fast-growing regions in India and Canada. Completed research projects have examined secondary city governance in India and South Africa, the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on socially marginalized internal migrants in south India, and community responses to dispossession from land and livelihoods. At their core, all her projects interrogate how planning processes reflect and reinforce the status quo in moments of transition and how different social groups contest inequalities and transform planning at such moments to create just and sustainable futures.

Dr. Subramanyam is a faculty affiliate with the School of Cities, the Data Sciences Institute, and the Centre for South Asian Studies at University of Toronto. She is a steering committee member for the School of Cities India and serves on the University of Toronto Presidential International Council on the Indian subcontinent.