Funded by a Tufts Collaborates seed grant, Binda is the Primary Investigator on a research study examining various impacts of the experience of college education on individuals who take college courses while doing time in prison. The study explores how formerly incarcerated people reflect on those college experiences. The results of this study are being used in the development of the in-prison college educational programming that is part of the Tufts University Prison Initiative at Tisch College (TUPIT).

In addition, Binda is working on a book manuscript, Image Conscious: Iconoclasm and the Reformation of Time in Early Modern English Literature, in which chapters on English poetry, drama, rhetoric, and science show that the drive that fueled a prejudice against images produced a "reformation of time," a shift in the mode of time’s apprehension that would become the basis of modern historical consciousness. No longer considered synchronic and uniform according to a medieval Augustinian paradigm, time would instead be understood as teleological and successive. This project in the history of ideas is thus one that demonstrates the ideological character of temporality and asks that we question its structuring assumptions about identity, sexuality, and normativity inherent therein. In one sense, this project sits squarely within a historicist tradition. It also, however, takes this tradition on as its very subject, collaborating with current efforts to historicize historicism.