- Director, Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center (TXRDC)
- Professor, Susanne M. and Melbern G. Glasscock '59 Endowed Chair in Arts & Sciences
- Email: m-campbell@tamu.edu
- Office: WCSS 311E
- Document: CV
Biography
Director of the Texas Federal Statistical Research Data Center
Professor Campbell’s research focuses on the measurement of race and ethnicity in surveys and inequality between and within racial and ethnic groups. She is currently working on projects that examine the predictors of racial and ethnic identification change over the life course, and projects that explore the multiple dimensions of racialized experience, such as phenotype and accent.
Courses Taught at Texas A&M
- SOCI 205: Introduction to Sociology
- SOCI 217: Introduction to Race and Ethnicity
- SOCI 317: Racial and Ethnic Relations
- SOCI 662: Social Demography
- SOCI 664: Racial and Ethnic Identity and Identification
- SOCI 683: Professional Writing and Publication
What is Your "race"?
Research Interests
- Racial and Ethnic Relations
- Racial and Ethnic Identity
- Social Inequality
- Social Demography
Educational Background
- Ph.D. University of Wisconsin-Madison
Awards & Honors
- 2024 - College of Arts & Sciences Faculty Excellence Award
- 2020 - Achievements in Climate and Inclusion (ACI) Award, College of Liberal Arts
- 2019-2020 - Association of Former Students Distinguished Achievement Award for Teaching, College-level, Texas A&M University
- 2014 - Early Career Scholarship Award, Midwest Sociological Society
- 2010 - Collegiate Teaching Award, University of Iowa
Selected Publications
- Anders, John, Mary E. Campbell, Craig Carpenter, and Luna Chandna. 2025. “Ethnoracial Transformations? Linking Administrative Data to Explain Changes in Identification.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 11(1):65-84.
- Plankey-Videla, Nancy and Mary E. Campbell. 2025. “Becoming a Citizen in the Age of Trump: Citizenship as Social Rights for Latines in Texas.” Social Sciences 14(7):445 (27 pages).
- Eason, John M., Mary E. Campbell, Benjamin Ghasemi, and Eileen Huey. OnlineFirst 2024. “Punishment is Purple: The political economy of prison building.” Punishment & Society.
- Bratter, Jenifer L., and Mary E. Campbell. 2023. “Mixing races, maintaining racism? Considering the connection between interracial families, social distance, and racial inequality.” Journal of Family Theory & Review 15(2):332-51.
- Jones, Nicole, Danny Malone Jr. and Mary E. Campbell. 2021.“Same-Sex and Different-Sex Interracial Couples: The Importance of Demographic and Religious Context.” Race and Social Problems 13: 267-78.
- Hannon, Lance, Verna M. Keith, Robert DeFina and Mary E. Campbell. 2021. “Do white people see variation in black skin tones? Reexamining a purported out-group homogeneity effect.” Social Psychology Quarterly 84(1):95-106.
- Campbell, Mary E. 2020. “Color and Constraint: The Effect of Skin Tone on Recent Immigrants to the United States.” Du Bois Review 17(2): 271-292.
- Korver-Glenn, Elizabeth, Sylvia Emmanuel, Mary E. Campbell and Verna M. Keith. 2020. “Media Consumption and Racial Residential Preferences.” Social Science Quarterly 101(5):1936-50.
- Campbell, Mary E., Verna M. Keith, Vanessa Gonlin and Adrienne Carter-Sowell. 2020. “Is a Picture Worth A Thousand Words? An Experiment Comparing Observer-Based Skin Tone Measures.” Race and Social Problems 12(3), 266-278.
- Gonlin, Vanessa, Nicole Jones, and Mary E. Campbell. 2020. “On the (Racial) Border: Expressed Race, Reflected Race, and the U.S.-Mexico Border Context.” Sociology of Race and Ethnicity 6(2): 161-178.
- Bratter, Jenifer, Mary E. Campbell and Jarron M. Saint Onge. 2020. “Living Race Together: The Role of Partner’s Race in Racial/Ethnic Differences in Smoking.” Ethnicity and Health 25(1): 141-159.