Tomoyo Chisaka

Dr. Tomoyo served as a Visiting Scholar to the Abbasi Program from Japan. At the time of her visit, she was affiliated with the University of Tokyo. Her research examines elections under authoritarian regimes, particularly Iran. She received degrees from Osaka University (BA in Persian, MA and PhD in International Public Policy). She has done a one-year fieldwork in Iran as a visiting student at the University of Tehran to complete her PhD research on Iran’s election management body. While at Stanford, she worked with Professor Blaydes as her faculty sponsor and she was a part of the communities of the Abbasi Program and the Hamid and Christina Moghadam Program in Iranian Studies. Since September 2023, she has been an assistant professor at Nagoya University of Commerce and Business.