gigi.awad@mail.utexas.edu
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College: Education

Home Department: Educational Psychology

Education: PhD, Southern Illinois University Carbondale

Research interests:Dr. Awad's research interests include attitude development and expression in the following areas: prejudice and discrimination, ethnic and racial identity (with a focus on Arabs and African Americans), acculturation, immigration, and attitudes toward affirmative action beneficiaries. In addition, she also studies the psychological antecedents of minority standardized test performance as well as issues related to culturally relevant research methodology. More recently, she has also been working on a project assessing the relationship between racial identity and body image for African American women.

Courses taught:
EDP 362 Psychology of Race and Race Relations

Awards/Honors: 2005 Multicultural Teaching Scholar, University of Missouri-Columbia

2004-2006 CWIL Postdoctoral Fellowship, St. Mary's College

Recent Publications:Awad, G. H. (in press). Diversity. In M. Constantine (Volume Ed.), Encyclopedia of Counseling: Cross-Cultural Counseling. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage.

Awad, G. H. (2007). The Role of Racial Identity, Academic Self-concept, and Self- esteem in the prediction of academic outcomes for African American students. Journal of Black Psychology,33,188-207.

Cokley, K. O., and Awad, G. H. (2008). Conceptual and Methodological Issues in Multicultural Research .In Heppner, P. P., Kivlighan, D. M., and Wampold, B. E. (Eds.). Research Design in Counseling (3rd Ed.). California: Wadsworth.

Awad, G. H., Cokley, K. O., and Ravitch, J. (2005). Attitudes toward Affirmative action: A comparison of color-blind versus modern racist attitudes. Journal of Applied Social Psychology, 35 (7), 1384-1399.

Awad, G. H., Sagrestano, L. M., Kittleson, M., and Sarvela, P. D. (2004). Development of a measure of barriers to HIV testing among individuals at high risk. AIDS Education and Prevention, 16, 115-125.

Cokley, K., Miller, K., Cunningham, D., Motoike, J., King, A., and Awad, G. (2001). Developing an Instrument to Assess College Students' Attitudes Toward Pledging and Hazing in Greek Letter Organizations. College Student Journal, 35, 451-456.