He is also Co-director of the research project, A Coeur d'Alene Grassroots Community-Based Digital Documentation and Preservation Project, which is dedicated to the preservation of the Coeur d'Alene language. Shannon's research interests include Linguistic Anthropology, Language Documentation, and Code-switching. His academic publications include Formal Notes on coeur d'Alene Clause Sturcture (2011) and a forthcoming, co-edited volume Insights from Practices in Community-Base Research (2018).