Arig al Shaibah is McMaster’s inaugural Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion and she is an adjunct associate professor in the Department of Sociology and has a teaching affiliation with the Arts & Science Program.
In addition to overseeing the Equity and Inclusion Office, she is responsible for championing inclusive excellence and leading the development and implementation of institution-wide strategic equity, diversity and inclusion priorities at McMaster.
Prior to arriving at McMaster, Arig held the roles of Vice-Provost (Student Affairs) and Acting Executive Director (Human Rights & Equity) at Dalhousie University, and, before that, Assistant Dean (Student Life and Learning) at Queen’s University. Arig also held adjunct faculty affiliations with Queen’s Interdisciplinary Studies Program and Gender Studies Department , as well as Dalhousie’s Sociology and Social Anthropology Department.
Arig holds a Master’s degree in Public Administration and a PhD in Education (Cultural and Policy Studies). Her doctoral research involved a study of the perspectives of senior-most administrators with respect to the barriers to and enablers of educational equity in higher education. Her areas of research interest are intergroup relations, race and racism, social inequality, as well as questions of how to foster inclusive leadership and mobilize organizational EDI change.

Information Box Group

Supporting Black Excellence
A message from Dr. Arig al Shaibah (she/her), Associate Vice-President, Equity and Inclusion
January 18, 2021

Healthcare Prospectives Podcast
Dr. al Shaibah discusses her work on equity and inclusion at McMaster and explores the barriers that racialized individuals face at both the individual and systematic level.
October 14, 2020

National Dialogues and Action for Inclusive Higher Education and Communities
Sector-wide Actions & Accountability
Panel Presentation by
Arig al Shaibah, Ph.D.
October 2, 2020

“Telling is not enough: people have to see and feel what’s being done.”
Dr. al Shaibah answers questions on anti-Black racism, institutional and cultural change.
June 12, 2020

Leadership, Governance and Accountability
Essay by Arig al Shaibah, Ph.D.
June 12, 2020

Transforming our Statements of Solidarity into Sustained Actions for Anti-Racist Change
June 8, 2020

McMaster Expands Sexual Violence Prevention and Response Office and In- House Expertise
August 16, 2019

Reflections on Social Inclusion and Cohesion on Campus and in Community
July 18, 2019