Whitney Mannies

Dr. Whitney Mannies serves as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Politics and Global Citizenship at Baldwin Wallace University, teaching courses in political theory and the history of political thought.

She holds a Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of California, Riverside, where her doctoral research examined the consequences of textual style and form for political and philosophical knowledge, with specialization in modern political thought, French Enlightenment, and eighteenth-century French feminism.

Her research centers on transnational intellectual exchanges that shaped Enlightenment political ideals, bridging political theory, literature, and cultural history to analyze how textual forms influence political knowledge. Key themes include gender dynamics in intellectual networks and cross-cultural dialogues during the Enlightenment era.

Recent publications demonstrate consistent engagement with Enlightenment studies, particularly examining Persian influences in European intellectual traditions and periodicals as transnational spaces for women's intellectual contributions. Her work reveals patterns of cross-cultural transmission and gendered knowledge production in eighteenth-century political thought.