Melanie Manion is an American political scientist. She is currently the Vor Broker Family Distinguished Professor at Duke University.
ManionâÂÂs research focuses on authoritarian governance, with empirical work on bureaucracy, corruption, information and political representation in China. She is fluent in Mandarin Chinese.
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. She also studied political economy and philosophy at Peking University (1978-1980).
Prior to joining Duke in 2015, Manion was a Vilas-Jordan Distinguished Achievement professor of political science at the University of WisconsinâÂÂMadison. She served on the political science faculty of the University of Rochester from 1989 to 2000.