Sirat Kaur

Research Interests: Criminology, Immigration, Health, Families, Quantitative Methods

Pronouns: she/her

Education: 
MA: Communication, 2023, Saint Louis University
BS: Economics, 2021, CT University

Bio: Sirat is a second-year PhD student examining how our understanding of families, crime, and health shifts when considering immigrant perspectives and experiences. Currently, she is working on her MA thesis, which uses data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Adolescent to Adult Health to understand the implications of intimate partner violence for mental health, particularly among immigrants. She is also interested in carcerality, the immigration-crime nexus from an urban perspective, and the role of laws. Sirat also has experience working as a community-based researcher and organizer for immigrant rights.

Publications:
Horowitz, Veronica L., Sirat Kaur, Synøve N. Andersen, and Jordan M. Hyatt. Forthcoming. “Shared Sorrow: Navigating Mass Grief in Incarceration.” Social Sciences.
   
Kaur, Sirat. 2025. “Nikki Haley’s Identity Politics and Its Impact on Immigrants.” Sikh Formations, 1–8. https://doi.org/10.1080/17448727.2025.2552033.
   
Grol-Prokopczyk, Hanna, Rui Huang, Chang Yu, Yu-An Chen, Sirat Kaur, Merita Limani, Ting-Hui Lin... 2025. "Over Fifty Years of Research on Social Disparities in Pain and Pain Treatment." Pain. doi: 10.1097/j.pain.0000000000003676

Conference Presentations:
Horowitz, Veronica L…, Sirat Kaur. 2025. “Shared Sorrow: Navigating Mass Grief in Incarceration.” American Society of Criminology Annual Meeting. Regular Session Presentation.
   
Kaur, Sirat, and Isabel J. Anadon. 2025. “The Shadows of Crime: Measuring Variation in the Reporting of Crime and Subnational Immigration Laws, 2000-2019.” Population Association of America Annual Meeting. Poster.

Email: hkaur36@buffalo.edu