Nancy Plankey-Videla
Director of Latino/a & Mexican American Studies
Associate Professor
- Areas of Speciality
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- Latina/o/x/e Studies / Mexican American Studies / Chicano/o/x Studies
- Participatory Action Research / Community-Engaged Research
- Immigration / Migration / International Migration
- Deportation
- Contact
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- (979) 845-5483
- plankeyvidela@tamu.edu
- LASB 381
- Professional Links
- Personal Website
- Department
- Sociology
- Bio
- Born in Chile and raised in Vermont and central Mexico, Dr. Plankey-Videla’s research and teaching is informed by a global perspective on inequality and agency. Her research seeks to understand how structural inequality affects the opportunities and barriers for women workers in Latin America and Latinx immigrants in the U.S. Her early work links power shifts in the global economy with organizational changes within firms, explaining how these changes lead to labor resistance during a period of economic crisis. More recently, Dr. Plankey-Videla’s work with the Latinx immigrant community in Texas has led to research on the racialization of day laborers, effects of deportation threat on families and communities, and social integration of deportees and returnees in Mexico. She is associate professor of sociology and currently the coordinator of the Latino/a and Mexican American Studies Program (LMAS), and affiliated with LMAS and the Women’s and Gender Studies Program.