Manami GOTO PhD
Bio
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. She was a visiting scholar at New York University Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, until June 2023, and is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter, UK.
Education
Manami obtained her PhD in Arab and Islamic Studies from the University of Exeter in 2019 with a doctoral studentship from the Centre for Gulf Studies and MA in Gulf Studies from Qatar University in 2015. Before and during her postgraduate studies, Manami also completed Arabic language courses at Kuwait University (2011-2012) and Qatar University (2012-2013), and Persian language courses at the University of Tehran (2015 and 2016).
Current Research
Manami is researching the dress politics of the Gulf Arab states, analyzing how migrant Iranian women have utilized different types of dress to express their sense of belonging, integrate into society, and reject certain social norms imposed on them.