Candelaria Garay is an associate professor in the Department of Global Labor and Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Her research interests include social policy and redistribution, labor and social movements, and environmental and health policy. Her research has appeared in journals such as Comparative Political Studies, Comparative Politics, Politics & Society, Studies in Comparative International Development, and World Development. In her book, "Social Policy Expansion in Latin America" (Cambridge University Press, 2016), she characterizes and explains the expansion and cross-country variation in social policy programs (income transfers, pensions and health care services) for populations historically excluded from social protection in Latin America. The book received the 2017 Robert A. Dahl Award of the American Political Science Association and an honorable mention for the 2018 Bryce Wood Book Award of the Latin American Studies Association. Garay's second book project titled Labor Coalitions in Unequal Societies, will explain why coalitions between labor unions and movements of informal-sector, rural and/or unemployed workers have formed in some developing countries but not others. In another book project, she studies social policy expansion in Latin America and other regions of the Global South. Before coming to Cornell University, Garay was an associate professor at Universidad Torcuato Di Tella in Argentina and an associate and assistant professor at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government.