Melanie Manion is an American political scientist.
She is currently the Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor at Duke University.
[1][2][3] Manion holds a BA in East Asian studies from McGill University, a MA in Far Eastern studies from the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, and a PhD in political science (1989) from the University of Michigan.
[4][5] Prior to joining Duke in 2015, Manion was a Vilas-Jordan Distinguished Achievement professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
[4] She served on the political science faculty of the University of Rochester from 1989 to 2000.