Manami GOTO, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor at the Graduate School of International Resource Sciences, Akita University and an Excellent Young Researcher of the Leading Initiative for Excellent Young Researchers (LEADER) Project.
Manami's most recent publication is a chapter in the book "Transnational Generations in the Arab Gulf States and Beyond." The chapter focuses on how identity is expressed through dress, discussing a study of Iranian migrants in the Gulf Cooperation Council countries.
Manami has curated exhibitions on the woman’s face mask in the Persian (Arabian) Gulf at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies at the University of Exeter (2018) and at the Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia and Africa at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2020).
Fieldwork
Manami has been conducting fieldwork on both sides of the Gulf and India since 2014 and through visiting 19 countries in the MENA region, she has also developed in-depth knowledge of the region’s socio-politics, culture, religion and languages.
