She researches and teaches in the areas of sex work/prostitution, critical race studies, decolonization, and violence against women, with an emphasis on representation and resistance. Her book, Street Sex Work and Canadian Cities: Resisting a Dangerous Order, is available this fall from University of Alberta Press. Currently, she is working with Mamawipawin Director Dr. Kiera Ladner (Political Studies and Canada Research Chair, Indigenous Governance) to develop three separate but related digital archives: the Sex Work Database, the Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database, and the Post-apology Indian Residential School Database. In partnership with Sex Professionals of Canada Executive Director Amy Lebovitch, Shawna recently began a project examining sex worker activism in Canada.