In December 2024, Sylvia Bashevkin was appointed as an Officer of the Order of Canada.
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In October 2024, Sylvia Bashevkin won a Governor General's Award in Commemoration of the Persons Case.
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In June 2024, she joined the board of directors of the New Israel Fund of Canada.
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In May 2024, her 2023 conference paper on provincial abortion policies in Canada was shortlisted for the Jill Vickers Prize, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association
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In May 2023, Sylvia Bashevkin received an honorary doctorate from Memorial University of Newfoundland in recognition of "her trailblazing and uncommonly impactful career as a political scientist and educator"
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In April 2023, her 2022 conference paper on abortion politics in Canada was shortlisted for the Jill Vickers Prize, awarded by the Canadian Political Science Association.
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In September 2021, she commented on the contemporary experiences of women politicians in light of the historical record
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In spring 2021, she reflected on the one-year pandemic anniversary and International Women's Day for rabble.ca
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In November 2020, she commented on the US presidential elections for the Toronto Star
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In fall 2020, she reflected on women as foreign policy leaders for the Faculti portal
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In spring 2020, she wrote a commentary for Policy Options exploring the consequences of COVID-19 for women
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During the March 2020 pandemic, Sylvia Bashevkin wrote this commentary for the Toronto Star
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In June 2019, Bashevkin spoke with Alexa Zulak of Arts and Science News at the University of Toronto about why she wrote Women as Foreign Policy Leaders
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In April 2019, she spoke with Elizabeth Renzetti of the Globe and Mail about Doing Politics Differently
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In June 2018, she appeared before Canada’s House of Commons Standing Committee on the Status of Women as an expert witness on barriers facing women in politics.
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In January 2019, she spoke on TVO's The Agenda with Steve Paikin about Women as Foreign Policy Leaders
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Sylvia Bashevkin’s research findings on political participation were cited in a Toronto Star editorial dated June 2018
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She appeared as a panelist on TVO’s The Agenda with Steve Paikin in June 2018 to discuss challenges facing the Ontario Liberal Party
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In May 2018, she spoke with Toronto Star reporter Kris Rushowy about candidates in the Ontario provincial election
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Sylvia Bashevkin was the keynote speaker and panelist at a Summit for Young Women Leaders sponsored by Hon. Carolyn Bennett, MP in Toronto in March 2018
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She spoke with Romi Levine of UofT News in January 2018 about #MeToo and the Women’s March
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She reviewed Hillary Clinton’s book called What Happened for the Toronto Star in September 2017
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Sylvia Bashevkin contributed an op-ed piece on women leaders in Canada to the Toronto Star in August 2017
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She delivered a Walrus Talk titled “What Kind of Conversation is This? Talking About Women and Power” in Calgary in October 2016
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In August 2018, she wrote an op-ed in the Toronto Star about Ontario's new government
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She spoke about women as foreign policy leaders at the University of Ottawa in September 2018
