Parvathy Binoy is a human geographer and environmental justice scholar whose research examines the intersections of race, climate change, memory, and spatial inequality. Her work focuses on Black geographies, environmental justice, feminist political ecology, and Afro-Asian solidarities across urban and coastal contexts in the United States and South Asia.

Her first book, Fighting for Rondo: Black Counter-Memory and the Spatial Politics of Repair in Saint Paul’s Historic Neighborhood (University of Minnesota Press, forthcoming), examines Black spatial memory, urban renewal, and struggles for repair in the historic Rondo neighborhood of Saint Paul, Minnesota. Her second book project with Duke University Press, Geographies of the Marooned: Climate Change and Black Life in the Indian Ocean, explores climate change, caste, and Afro-descendant Siddi communities in South India through ethnographic and community-based research.

Binoy’s scholarship has appeared in journals including Annals of the American Association of Geographers, Antipode, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, Geoforum, and Human Geography. Her research combines ethnography, oral history, archival research, and participatory community-based methods to study environmental justice, Black place-making, and climate futures.

Her research has been supported by the Wenner-Gren Foundation and Minnesota Humanities Center. She speaks Hindi, Malayalam and Tamil and has a Ph.D. in Geography from the Florida State University, an M.A. in Geography and an M.A. in International Relations from Syracuse University, and a B.A. in Political Science and Women Studies from Oregon State University.

At Boston College, she teaches courses such as Where on Earth? Place, Power and Global Change, Research Methods, Global environmental justice and Deep Asia. Her teaching emphasizes critical inquiry, community engagement, and interdisciplinary approaches to environmental and spatial justice.