Shaunak Sastry

514 total citations
24 papers, 280 citations indexed

About

Shaunak Sastry is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, General Health Professions and Philosophy. According to data from OpenAlex, Shaunak Sastry has authored 24 papers receiving a total of 280 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 12 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 6 papers in General Health Professions and 5 papers in Philosophy. Recurrent topics in Shaunak Sastry's work include Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 papers), HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (3 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (2 papers). Shaunak Sastry is often cited by papers focused on Rhetoric and Communication Studies (4 papers), HIV/AIDS Impact and Responses (3 papers) and Health Policy Implementation Science (2 papers). Shaunak Sastry collaborates with scholars based in United States, Singapore and Netherlands. Shaunak Sastry's co-authors include Mohan J. Dutta, Alessandro Lovari, Patrick Dillon, Andrew Carter, Ambar Basu, William Bart Collins, Srividya Ramasubramanian, Heather M. Zoller, Tracy Robinson and Christina Jones and has published in prestigious journals such as Journal of Communication, Human Communication Research and Communication Monographs.

In The Last Decade

Shaunak Sastry

20 papers receiving 269 citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Shaunak Sastry United States	11	138	74	51	48	30	24	280
Ray Block United States	12	216 1.6×	49 0.7×	33 0.6×	101 2.1×	6 0.2×	40	439
Olga Idriss Davis United States	9	79 0.6×	77 1.0×	23 0.5×	12 0.3×	34 1.1×	24	276
Peer Jacob Svenkerud United States	9	82 0.6×	90 1.2×	54 1.1×	14 0.3×	4 0.1×	12	324
Serap Bulduk Türkiye	8	98 0.7×	63 0.9×	33 0.6×	15 0.3×	13 0.4×	25	290
Nagesh Rao United States	5	73 0.5×	70 0.9×	61 1.2×	9 0.2×	8 0.3×	9	264
Phyllis T. Piotrow United States	7	95 0.7×	148 2.0×	59 1.2×	34 0.7×	5 0.2×	15	395
Corinne L. Shefner‐Rogers United States	6	93 0.7×	92 1.2×	80 1.6×	19 0.4×	4 0.1×	7	331
Noreen M. Sugrue United States	7	177 1.3×	125 1.7×	12 0.2×	17 0.4×	13 0.4×	11	352
Tejendra Pherali United Kingdom	12	175 1.3×	48 0.6×	39 0.8×	9 0.2×	5 0.2×	35	416
Satveer Kaur‐Gill Singapore	11	135 1.0×	99 1.3×	21 0.4×	30 0.6×	5 0.2×	29	273

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Shaunak Sastry

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All Works

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20 of 20 papers shown

Sastry, Shaunak, et al.. (2025). Critical Health Communication. BiblioBoard Library Catalog (Open Research Library).

McFarlane, Soroya Julian, Lillie D. Williamson, Shawnika J. Hull, et al.. (2025). Dialogue on difference: Invisible bridges and barriers of community-engaged research. Communication Monographs. 92(3). 407–427.

Sastry, Shaunak, et al.. (2023). The (mis)uses of community: a critical analysis of public health communication for COVID-19 vaccination in the United States. Human Communication Research. 49(4). 396–407. 3 indexed citations

Sastry, Shaunak, et al.. (2020). Problem Definition and Community Participation in Environmental Health Interventions: An Exploratory Study of Groundwater Arsenic Remediation. Health Communication. 37(6). 717–725. 7 indexed citations

Sastry, Shaunak. (2020). Feeding the other: Whiteness, privilege, and neoliberal stigma in food pantries. Health Communication. 36(8). 1055–1056. 6 indexed citations

Sastry, Shaunak & Ambar Basu. (2020). How to Have (Critical) Method in a Pandemic: Outlining a Culture-Centered Approach to Health Discourse Analysis. Frontiers in Communication. 5. 9 indexed citations

Sastry, Shaunak, et al.. (2019). A Meta-Theoretical Systematic Review of the Culture-Centered Approach to Health Communication: Toward a Refined, “Nested” Model. Communication Theory. 31(3). 380–421. 42 indexed citations

Dutta, Mohan J., et al.. (2018). A Culture-Centered Community-Grounded Approach to Disseminating Health Information among African Americans. Health Communication. 34(10). 1075–1084. 15 indexed citations

Sastry, Shaunak, et al.. (2017). From Patient Navigation to Cancer Justice: Toward a Culture-Centered, Community-Owned Intervention Addressing Disparities in Cancer Prevention. Frontiers in Communication. 2. 11 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak & Mohan J. Dutta. (2017). Health Communication in the Time of Ebola: A Culture-Centered Interrogation. Journal of Health Communication. 22(sup1). 10–14. 21 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak & Alessandro Lovari. (2016). Communicating the Ontological Narrative of Ebola: An Emerging Disease in the Time of “Epidemic 2.0”. Health Communication. 32(3). 329–338. 33 indexed citations

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Dutta, Mohan J., et al.. (2016). Narratives of Stress in Health Meanings of African Americans in Lake County, Indiana. Health Communication. 32(10). 1241–1251. 22 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak. (2015). Structure and agency in long-distance truck drivers’ lived experiences of condom use for HIV prevention. Culture Health & Sexuality. 18(5). 553–566. 3 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak. (2015). Long Distance Truck Drivers and the Structural Context of Health: A Culture-Centered Investigation of Indian Truckers’ Health Narratives. Health Communication. 31(2). 230–241. 19 indexed citations

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Koerber, Amy, et al.. (2015). Risk and Vulnerable, Medicalized Bodies. 11(1). 1–9. 3 indexed citations

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Dutta, Mohan J., et al.. (2013). Relational tensions in academic-community partnerships in the culture-centered approach (CCA): Negotiating communication in creating spaces for voices. 457–478. 2 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak. (2012). Drivers of India's HIV/AIDS epidemic: Culture-centered co-constructions with long-distance truck drivers. Purdue e-Pubs (Purdue University System). 1 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak & Mohan J. Dutta. (2012). Global Health Interventions and the “Common Sense” of Neoliberalism: A Dialectical Analysis of PEPFAR. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication. 6(1). 21–39. 25 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak & Mohan J. Dutta. (2011). Public Health, Global Surveillance, and the “Emerging Disease” Worldview: A Postcolonial Appraisal of PEPFAR. Health Communication. 27(6). 519–532. 25 indexed citations

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Sastry, Shaunak & Mohan J. Dutta. (2011). Postcolonial Constructions of HIV/AIDS: Meaning, Culture, and Structure. Health Communication. 26(5). 437–449. 16 indexed citations

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