Title: Assistant Professor
University: University of Cincinatti
Email: sastrysk@ucmail.uc.edu
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Description of Work:
Shaunak Sastry, Ph.D. (Purdue, 2012) is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Communication at the University of Cincinnati and an affiliate faculty at the Center for Culture-Centered Research and Evaluation. His areas of interest are global health communication, critical theory and culture-centered approaches to social change with a particular emphasis on HIV/AIDS campaigns in the global south. He has published peer-reviewed articles in Health Communication, Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, and Studies in Symbolic Interaction in addition to book chapters and close to 20 paper presentations at national and international conferences. He is currently working on publishing manuscripts from his dissertation, for which he was awarded the Purdue Research Foundation Fellowship (2011-12). For the last two years, he has been a project manager and research assistant on the Heart Health Indiana campaign under the aegis of CUAHD (Communities and Universities addressing Health Disparities), a community-based heart-health initiative located in two Indiana counties. At the University of Cincinnati, Dr. Sastry teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in health communication, environmental communication, rhetorical theory and critical theories of health.