LEADERSHIP

Program Coordinator. (2024, August – 2026, August). The discipline of Sociology, Mount Royal University.

Past President. (2023, July - 2024, June). Executive Committee. Canadian Sociological Association. [National Professional Association with approximately 1000 members]

President. (2022, May – 2023, June). Executive Committee. Canadian Sociological Association. [National Professional Association with approximately 1000 members]

President-Elect. (2021, June – 2022, June). Executive Committee. Canadian Sociological Association. [National Professional Association with approximately 1000 members]

Member at Large, Executive Board Member. (2020, May – 2021, June). Mount Royal Faculty Association.

AWARDS

MRFA EDI Award. (2023, October). Mount Royal University Faculty Association Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Award. CAD 750

Faculty of Arts Outstanding Scholar Award. (2023, April). Faculty of Arts, Mount Royal University.

Faculty of Arts Outstanding Team Award. (2017, March). Faculty of Arts, Mount Royal University. CAD 600.

Distinguished Faculty Award. (2016, June). Mount Royal University. CAD 4000.

SAMRU Champion Award. (2013, April 3). Students Association of Mount Royal University.

GRANTS (Select)

SSHRC Explore Award. IGRF. Mount Royal University. (2025, March). Underdiagnosed and Underserved: Examining Socio-Linguistic Barriers to Dementia Diagnosis and Services (Co-Investigator: Dr. Celeste Pang). $7000.

SSHRC Insight Development Grants. (2019, June). Project Title: #MeTooAcademia: Knowledge (Im)mobilization of Sexualized Violence Research at Canadian Post-Secondary Institutions. (Co-Investigator: Dr. Corinne Mason). $40,621.

PUBLICATIONS (Select)

Shankar, I and Mason, C.L. (2025). “White Feminism on Campus: Governance and Carceral Feminist Politics in Post-Secondary Responses to Sexualized Violence.” Gender & Education. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540253.2025.2458436

Mason, C.L. and Shankar, I. (2024). “Immobilizing Intersectionality: The Performative Inclusion of Intersectionality within Post-Secondary Institutions’ Sexual Violence Responses.”Women Studies International Forum, 104,102911. 
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.wsif.2024.102911

Shankar, I. and Mason, C.L. (2023). “Sorry, my child is kicking me under the desk”: Intersectional challenges to research during the COVID-19 pandemic. In Contemporary Vulnerabilities Plans Unraveled: Reflections on Social Justice Methodologies. Chelsea Jones and Claire Carter (Eds). University of Alberta Press.

Motapanyane, M. and Shankar, I. (2022). “Increasing Pathways for Leadership for Black, Indigenous and Women of Colour.” Atlantis, 43(1), 3-18. https://doi.org/10.7202/1096953ar

Shankar, I. and Tavcer, S. D. (2021). “Good People with Good Intentions”: Deconstructing Post-Secondary Institution’s Sexual Violence Policy.” Canadian Journal of Educational Administration and Policy, 95, 2-16. https://doi.org/10.7202/1075669ar

Magnussen, J. and Shankar, I. (2019). Where is it? Examining Post-Secondary Students' Accessibility to Policies and Resources on Sexual Violence. Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 49(2), 90-108. https://doi.org/10.47678/cjhe.v49i2.188203

Lozanski, K. and Shankar, I. (2018). Surrogates as risk or surrogates at risk? The contradictory constitution of surrogates' bodies in transnational surrogacy. Social Theory and Health, 1-17. DOI:10.1057/s41285-018-0066-5