Saguna Shankar (she/her)

For more about my research and teaching, please visit my website.

• PhD, University of British Columbia, Library, Archival and Information Studies (2023)
• MLIS, University of British Columbia, Library and Information Studies (2016)
• BA, University of London, English (2013)

• CAIS Doctoral Dissertation Award; Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association Canadienne des Sciences de l’Information; 2024-06-01;
• ASIS&T Doctoral Dissertation Award; Association for Information Science and Technology; 2024-06-01;
• ALISE/The Eugene Garfield Doctoral Dissertation Competition; Association for Library and Information Science Education; 2024-05-01;

• Tulloch, B. J., Kaczmarek, M., Shankar, S., & Nathan, L. P. (2024). When words are key: negotiating meaning in information research. Journal of Documentation, 80(7), 187-205.
• Hands, A., & Shankar, S. (in press). Back from crisis mode: Exploring care-centered approaches to teaching in LIS. Journal of Education for Library and Information Science.

• Shankar, S. (2023, November 8–11). “Useless housewife data”: Claims of usefulness and uselessness in community-grounded environmental justice initiatives [Paper presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.;
• Shankar, S. (2023, November 8–11). What’s the use of data? Epistemic authority and environmental injustice at Love Canal [Poster presentation]. Annual Meeting of the Society for Social Studies of Science, Honolulu, Hawaii, United States.;
• Sinnamon, L., Nathan, L., Shankar, S., Hansen, M., and Marshall, D. (2023, June 6–9). Deliberating climate action @ the library: Supporting sense making & meaning making in the midst of uncertainty and difference [Panel presentation]. Annual Conference of the Canadian Association for Information Science / l’Association Canadienne des Sciences de l’Information. https://cais2023.ca/talk/panel2/Panel2.pdf;