Satveer Kaur

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Satveer Kaur

Assistant Professor Communication Studies University of Nebraska-Lincoln

Contact

Address
LPH 359
Lincoln, NE 68588-0329
Phone
402-472-2070 On-campus 2-2070
Email
skaur11@unl.edu

Dr. Satveer Kaur-Gill studies the interpersonal, intergroup, structural, and socioecological processes of communication to understand health disparities and inequalities globally. A critical health communication scholar, Satveer conducts multimethod research approaches to understand and rectify the communicative inequalities facing communities that are underserved, minoritized, and marginalized from equitable access to healthcare they need. For example, some of Satveer’s projects include (a) health activism with precarious migrant workers facing health injustices in South and Southeast Asia (b) health meanings of communities facing financial and food insecurity (c) implicit and explicit bias during racially discordant patient-provider communication encounters, and (d) intersectional approaches to reproductive justice.

 Satveer was awarded the 2016-2017 Yale Fox Fellowship, a 2019-2020 US ASEAN Fulbright for her work on health precarity and migrant work, and the 2021 National Communication Association, Health Communication Division’s, Early Career Award.

Education

Ph.D., National University of Singapore

Representative Publications

Kaur-Gill, S., Basnyat, I., Friend, J., & Riddick, B. (2026). Birthing experiences of Black mothers within the U.S. healthcare system: A Black feminist investigation. Health Communication, 1–14. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2026.2701887

Kaur-Gill, S., Drummond, D. K., Zhang, J., Butcher, R., Eggly, S., Schifferdecker, K., ... & Barnato, A. E. (2024). “I didn’t go into medicine just to be on the phone”: Emotional expression as sacrosanct during serious illness patient-physician advanced cancer care communication during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Health Communication, 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2438338

Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2023). Migrants and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Communication, Inequality, and Transformation (eds). Singapore: Springer Nature Singapore.

Kaur-Gill, S. (2022). The meanings of heart health among low-income Malay women in Singapore: narratives of food insecurity, caregiving stressors, and shame. Journal of Applied Communication Research, 50(2), 111-128.

Kaur-Gill, S. (2024). “They [Doctors] don’t really know what we’re actually experiencing”: Undoing racializing frames of heart health in Singapore by centering listening as method. Health Communication, 1–11. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2024.2365494

Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2020). Negotiating the (im)mobility of domestic work: Communicative erasures, disrupted embodiments, and neoliberal Asia. Journal of International and Intercultural Communication, 13(2), 130-150.

Kaur-Gill, S., & Dutta, M. J. (2021). Structure as depressant: Theorizing narratives of mental health among migrant domestic workers. Health communication, 36(12), 1464-1475.

Kaur-Gill, S. (2023). The cultural customization of TikTok: Subaltern migrant workers and their digital cultures. Media International Australia, 186(1), 29-47.

Teaching

Please email Dr. Kaur-Gill for more information on these courses.

Graduate

  • COMM 956: Intercultural Health Communication
  • COMM 987: Patient-Provider Communication