Carrie Manning

Ph.D. University of California at Berkeley 1997
MPIA, Princeton University
BA, Wesleyan University

Comparative politics, Post-conflict politics, international peace-building, comparative state-building, comparative democratization.

Dr. Carrie Manning is Associate Provost for International Initiatives at Georgia State University and Professor in the Department of Political Science. She is the author of five books and three dozen journal articles and contributions to edited volumes. Her work on post-conflict politics, particularly on the conversion of armed opposition groups into political parties after civil war, has helped to shape that field of study. Manning lived in southern Africa from 1994-1998 and served as country director for the National Democratic Institute in Angola in 1997-98. She has conducted seminars in civil-military relations in more than a dozen African countries and has been a Fulbright scholar in Mozambique (1994-95) and Canada (2018). Manning served as chair of her department from 2011-2017 and has held a number of other leadership positions within the department and college. She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Berkeley (1997), an MPIA from the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University (1991), and a BA from Wesleyan University (1986).