Germine Awad (she/her), is a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor of Psychology at the University of Michigan. Dr. Germine Awad is one of the co-founders and president of the American, Arab, Middle Eastern and North African Psychological Association (AMENA-Psy). Dr. Awad has also served as the inaugural MENA/Arab Member-at-Large for the American Psychological Association’s Division 45 (Division of Culture, Race, & Ethnicity). She is also a Fellow of the American Psychological Association.

She conducts research on the process of acculturation and ethnic identity formation for Arab/MENA Americans residing in the United States. Her findings show that Arab/MENA Americans construct their ethnic identity in complex and sophisticated ways. She has conducted studies testing a streamlined version of a census race/ethnicity question with MENA/Arab Americans and examined the ways that this population identifies in terms of race and ethnicity. Dr. Awad also studies the effect of discrimination on the Arab and African American community as well as predictors of prejudice toward Arab Americans, individuals of Middle Eastern descent and other minority groups.