He was an Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, Fulbright program, and American Council of Learned Societies fellow.

In 2010, he received titular professorship from the president of the Republic of Poland Bronisław Komorowski.

[4] In the spring of 2021 he was an Istvan Deak Visiting Professor at Columbia University[5] Šipka is the author of various monographs and dictionaries, such as Serbian-English general dictionaries for "Prometej",[6] the monograph titled Lexical Conflict: Theory and practice with Cambridge University Press,[7] Lexical Layers of Identity: Words, Meaning, and Culture in the Slavic Languages,[8] The Geography of Wordswith Cambridge University Press,[9] and Water, Whiskey, and Vodka: A Story of Slavic Languages with Georgetown University Press;[10] His main research interests lie in the fields of lexicography, lexicology, linguistic anthropology, computational linguistics, and Slavic linguistics.

In 2017, Sipka has signed the Declaration on the Common Language of the Croats, Serbs, Bosniaks and Montenegrins.

[11] Sipka was the editor-in-chief of the Journal of the National Council of Less Commonly Taught Languages from 2008 to 2020.