Manami GOTO, Ph.D. is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Institute of Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.She 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, she 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).

Manami's main areas of interest are dress, material culture, oral history, and the rituals of women in the Persian Gulf.