Honorary Lecturer at the Australian National University, School of Culture History and Language (2024 - present)

Visiting Fellow at the University of Helsinki (2023 - present)

Postdoctoral Researcher at the University of Helsinki (2020 - 2022)

Kashima, Eri & Schokkin, Dineke. In Press. Variationist Sociolinguistics. Evans, Nicholas & Fedden, Sebastian (Eds.). Oxford Handbook of Papuan Languages. Oxford: Oxford University Press

Kashima, Eri & Di Garbo, Francesca & Singer, Ruth & Khanina, Olesya. Accepted. The design principles of a sociolinguistic typological questionnaire for language contact. Language Dynamics and Change.

Kashima, Eri & Di Garbo, Francesca & Raatikainen, Oona & Avelino, Rosnátaly & Beck, Sasha & Berge, Anna & Blanco, Ana et al. 2023. GramAdapt Social Contact Dataset. Zenodo. (doi:10.5281/ZENODO.7508054) 

Skirgård, Hedvig & Haynie, Hannah J. & Blasi, Damián E. & Hammarström, Harald & Collins, Jeremy & Latarche, Jay J. & Lesage, Jakob ... Kashima, Eri... Gray, Russell D. 2023. Grambank reveals the importance of genealogical constraints on linguistic diversity and highlights the impact of language loss. Science Advances 9(16). eadg6175.
(doi:10.1126/sciadv.adg6175)

Kashima, Eri. (2022). Introduction to Special Section: Africanist Small-scale Multilingualism Research from a Papuanist Perspective. Nordinc Journal of African Studies, 31(1): 1-8. - [Open Access - link]

Barth, Danielle; Evans, Nicholas; Arka, I Wayan; Bergqvist, Henrik; Forker, Diana; Gipper, Sonja; Hodge, Gabrielle; Kashima, Eri; Kasuga, Yuki; Kawakami, Carine; Kimoto, Yukinori; Knuchel, Dominique; Kogura, Norikazu; Kurabe, Keita; Mansfield, John; Narrog, Heiko; Pratiwi, Desak Putu Eka; van Putten, Saskia; Senge, Chikako; Tykhostup, Olena. (2021). Language vs individuals in cross-linguistic corpus typology. Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication 25, Doing corpus-based typology with spoken language data: State of the art. Edited by Geoffrey Haig, Stefan Schnell, and Frank Seifart, pp. 179 – 232. - (link)

Kashima, Eri. (2021). The phonetics of Nmbo (Nɐmbo) with some comments on its phonology (Yam family; Morehead district). In Kate L. Lindsey & Dineke Schokkin (Eds.), Language Documentation & Conservation Special Publication: Phonetic fieldwork in Southern New Guinea, 24, 53–75. - [Open Access] - (link)

Di Garbo, Francesca & Kashima, Eri & Napoleão de Souza, Ricardo & Sinnemäki, Kaius. (2021). Concepts and methods for integrating language typology and sociolinguistics. In Ballarè, Silvia & Guglielmo Inglese (eds.). 2021. Atti del Workshop SLI “Sociolinguistica e tipologia: verso un approccio integrato allo studio della variazione”. Milano: Officina 21. - (link)

Kashima, Eri. (2020). Word initial [h]-drop variation in Nmbo: Change-in-progress within an egalitarian multilingual speech community of Papua New Guinea. Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 6(2), 250–277. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.20002.kas

Kashima, Eri, & Meyerhoff, Miriam. (2020). Special issue Variation in the Pacific . Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 6(2), 151–159. https://doi.org/10.1075/aplv.00013.toc

Evans, Nicholas., Arka, I. Wayan., Carroll, Matthew. J., Choi, Yun Jung., Döhler, Christian., Gast, Volker., Kashima, Eri., Mittag, Emile., Olsson, Bruno., Quinn, Kyla., Schokkin, Dineke., Tama, Phillip., van Tongeren, Charlotte., Siegel, Jeff. (2018). The Languages of Southern New Guinea. In B. Palmer (Ed.), The Languages and Linguistics of New Guinea: A Comprehensive Guide (pp. 640–774). Berlin: De Gruyter Mouton.

Kashima, Eri., Williams, Daniel, Ellison, T. Mark, Schokkin, Dineke, & Escudero, Paola. (2016). Uncovering the acoustic vowel space of a previously undescribed language: the vowels of Nambo. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Express Letters, 139 (6). - (pdf)

Eri Kashima (collector), 2014; Recordings from Bevdevn (personal narratives, procedurals, opinions, traditional stories, interviews, future/irrealis narration), South-Fly District, Western Province, Papua New Guinea. (WSEK1), Digital collection managed by PARADISEC. [Open Access] DOI: 10.4225/72/56E979EC6ED65 - (link)

Editorial Work

Eri Kashima & Miriam Meyerhoff Special issue of Asia-Pacific Language Variation, 6:2 (2020) & 7:1 (2021)

Doctoral Thesis

Kashima, Eri. (2020). Language In My Mouth: Linguistic Variation in the Nmbo Speech Community of Southern New Guinea. Unpublished PhD Thesis. Australian National University

Non-Scientific

Sinnemäki, Kaius., Di Garbo, Francesca, Kashima, Eri, & Napoleão de Souza, Ricardo. (2020). Uncovering the world's linguistic diversity. EU Research, (Autumn 2020), 64-65. (link)

In-Progress

2021

Kashima, Eri.  (2021) Small-scale multilingualism of Papua New Guinea: a Southern New Guinean perspective. Part of "Thematic Panel Unsettling multilingualism: insights from non-polyglossic communities around the globe" at Sociolinguistics Symposium 23 (June 10th), Online - (link to abstract) 

2020

Di Garbo, Francesca & Kashima, Eri. Conceptual and methodological tools for integrating typology and sociolinguistics. At Società di Linguistica Italian Workshop Tipologia e sociolinguistica (Sept. 10th), Online

Kashima, Eri. At Australian Linguistics Society Annual Conference (Online)

2019

Kashima, Eri, K. L. Lindsey, D. Schokkin, and K. A. Strong. Variationist studies in southern New Guinea. Presented at Current Trends in Papuan Linguistics. INALCO, Paris, December 2019. 

2018

Evans, Nicholas, &  Ellison, T. Mark, & Kashima, Eri.  Decategorialising prominence marker in Nen and Nmbo. At New Waves of Analysing Variation Asia Pacific 5 (February), Brisbane, Australia. 

Evans, N., Kashima, E., Schokkin, D. Emic views on having multiple languages in Southern New Guinea: A qualitative description of stable multilingualism across generations. International Congress of Linguists (July), Cape Town, South Africa. 

2017

Evans, N., Ellison, T. M., Kashima, E., Lindsey, K., Quinn, K., Schokkin, D., Siegel, S. Diachronic Typology Meets Contact Typology: A Regional Case Study from Southern New Guinea. Association of Linguistic Typology (December 2017), Canberra, Australia. 

Kashima, E. The Sociolinguistics of Word Initial /h/ Lenition in Nmboland, Papua New Guinea. Workshop on the Languages of Papua (January 2017), Manokwari, Indonesia. 

Austronesian and Papuan Languages and Linguistics 14 (June 11th 2022)
Berlin, Germany. Invited keynote speaker for Early Career Plenary talk. Conference hosted by Leibniz-Zentrum Allgemeine Sprachwissenschaft & Humboldt University
Talk Title: Language ecological approaches to New Guinean societal multilingualisms: micro- and macro- case studies 

Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity Forum Dialogues (November 2018)
Canberra, Australia. Part of Prof Nicholas Evans’s ARC Laureate Project, Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity
Talk Title:  Small, dense-multiplex networks, and multilingualism: A mixed methods investigation of language variation and change in Nmboland, Papua New Guinea

Sociolinguistic Symposium 22 (June 2018)
Auckland, New Zealand. Invited by Prof Miriam Meyerhoff (University of Auckland / Victoria University) for Long Colloquium, Sociolinguistic Variation in the Pacific.
Talk Title:  Doing a Sociolinguistic Language Variation and Change Study of Nmbo, a Papuan Language

Hong Kong University (May 2015)
Hong Kong, PRC. invited by Prof Stephen Matthews.
Ellison, T. M., & Kashima, E. ,
Talk Title: Bilingualism and language divergence in small communities.

Introduction to Linguistics (First year introductory course on the structures of languages)

The Australian National University, College of Arts and Social Sciences, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics  (Sem1 2019, 2015)

Position and responsibilities: Tutor for first year undergraduate classes (2 - 4 classes). Creation of linguistic problem data sets for assignments and final examinations.

Supervisor: Dr. Jennifer Hendriks

Guest Lectures

2019 Oct. 4th - Language Variation in "Indigenous Minority" Contexts (for MA programme Linguistic Diversity in the Digital Age, LDA-G3016/LDA-G503. University of Helsinki. Convenors: Dr. Maria Khachaturyan & Assoc. Prof. Kaius Sinnemäki)

2019 June - Ethics in the Field - (with Alexandra Marley for Field methods in Linguistics LING3012 & LING6009 winter term. Australian National University | Convenor: Dr. Matthew Carroll)

English Instruction

Berlitz Japan, Mizonokuchi Center, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan (Feb. 2008 – Mar. 2010)

Position: English language conversation instructor

Supervisor: Ms. Johanna Muraishi

Stephen Wurm Graduate Prize for Pacific Linguistic Studies 2021

ANU Australian Postgraduate Award 2014-2018

Japanese Language Proficiency Exam Level 1 with a score of 93%

Australian Linguistics Society (Australia) - member

Center of Excellence: Dynamics of Language (Australia) - member

Linguistic Adaptations Project (European Research Council Laureate Project, 2019-) (link)

University of Helsinki, Faculty of Arts, Department of Languages

Position and Responsibilities: Postdoctoral researcher

Supevisor: Assoc. Prof. Kaius Sinnemaäki

The Wellsprings of Linguistic Diversity (Australian Research Council Laureate Project Grant No. FL130100111, 2014-2019)

Australian National University, College of Asia  and the Pacific, School of Culture, History, and Language | ARC Center of Excellence of the Dynamics of Language

Position and Responsibilities: PhD candidate and fieldworker for Southern New Guinea

Supervisor: Prof. Nicholas Evans

KuWaru Child Language Acquisition Project  (Oct. 2017 – Feb. 2019) 

ANU, College of Asia  and the Pacific, School of Culture, History, and Language 

Position and Responsibilities: RA, data processing and management, metadata management.

Supervisor: Dr. Alan Rumsey

SCOPIC - Social Cognition Parallax Interview Corpus  (Oct. 2016 – Aug. 2018)

Position and Responsibilities: Japanese language transcription and coder

Supervisor: Prof. Nicholas Evans, Dr. Danielle Barth

Project Details: [link]

Grambank (Dec. 2017 – Feb. 2018) 

Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History, Jena, Germany.

Position and Responsibilities: Coder of Oceanic languages for Grambank Project

Supervisor: Ms. Hedvig Skirgåd for Professor Russell Gray

Editorial 

Asia Pacific Language Variation Special Issue Guest Co-Editor (2020)

Conference Organising

Workshop Organising

Conference Volunteering

24th International Conference on Historical Linguistics (Australian National University, 2019 July 1-5) (Supervisors: Dr. Bethwyn Evans, Dr. Jennifer Hendriks, Ms. Kristina Gallego)