Mariela Daby is a Professor of Political Science at Reed College in Portland, Oregon. Her research explores reproductive and LGBTQ+ rights, gender and democratic erosion, distributive politics, and social movements in Latin America. She has published on abortion decriminalization, the gender gap in political clientelism, and political mobilization in the region.
She is the author of Mobilizing for Abortion Rights in Latin America (2023) and Mobilizing Poor Voters: Machine Politics, Clientelism, and Social Networks in Argentina (2015), both published by Cambridge University Press.
Dr. Daby’s research has appeared in Comparative Political Studies, Politics & Gender, Comparative Politics, Party Politics, Social Networks, Latin American Research Review, and Latin American Politics and Society. She has received fellowships and grants from the American Political Science Association, Reed College, the University of Chicago’s Center for Latin American Studies and Political Science Department, the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame, the Yale Program on Democracy, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Social Science Research Council, and the Fulbright Commission.
She earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Chicago and teaches courses on global politics, social movements, gender and politics in the Americas, and human rights in Latin America.