Teaching

TEACHING Timothy Williams

 

My teaching covers international relations, conflict and peace, political violence, perpetration, racism and memory politics, as well as qualitative research methods. I combine theoretical and empirical perspectives with research-oriented teaching and, alongside lectures and seminars, have taught research seminars, field trips and methods training at BA, MA and PhD levels.

MA

  • Perpetration from a Social and Literary Studies Perspective: Motivation, Representation, Memory (2024)
  • Conducting Qualitative Interviews – Workshop for MA and PhD Students (2021)
  • Violence and Conflict in Southeast Asia (2021)
  • MA Colloquium (2021, 2022)
  • Racism: Structures, Politics, Resistance (2020)
  • Perpetrators during and after Genocide (2020)
  • Advanced Research Methods (2019)
  • Perpetrators and Perpetration: Complex Understandings of Action in Genocide (2017, 2019)
  • Remembering, Memorializing and Representing Violent Pasts – Field Trip to Berlin (2018)
  • Srebrenica: On Difficult Dealing with the Past – Field Trip to Bosnia (2014)
  • Perpetrators: Micro and Meso-Level Dynamics in Genocide (2013)
  • Politics of Peace and Development in a Post-Conflict Setting – Field Trip to Bosnia (2013)

BA

  • International and Intra-State Conflicts: Introduction to the Empirical and Theoretical Foundations of Peace and Conflict Studies (annually since 2021)
  • Qualitative Methods II: Qualitative Interviews (annually since 2021)
  • Text Analysis (annually since 2020)
  • The Politics of Memory (2025)
  • Racism: Comparative Perspectives on Political Institutions and Societal Tensions (2023)
  • Political Violence beyond War (2022)
  • Remembering, Commemorating and Representing Violent Pasts (2020)
  • Violence in Peaceful Societies (2020)
  • Comparative Approaches to Autocracy and Violence in Southeast Asia (2018)
  • Perspectives on and Dynamics of Perpetration in Genocide (2017)
  • Introduction to Conflict Regulation (2013, 2014, 2015, 2018)
  • Introduction to Peace and Conflict Studies (2016)

 

Thesis supervision

Supervision and examination of 14 MA theses and 22 BA theses for the BA and MA Social Sciences and Public Affairs, BA and MA Political Science, MA Peace and Conflict Studies (both German language and English-language, double degree programme), and BA Sociology

 

 

Guest teaching

11/2024
Rhode Island College (USA) in Carse Ramos’ course: “Perpetrators and perpetration in genocide” (digital)

11/2024
University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany): “Qualitative Interviews”
11/2024
City University of New York (CUNY), Baruch College (USA) in Rhiannon Neilsen’s class: “Social media and violence”
10/2023

University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany) in lecture series “‘Under Surveillance‘ – Interactions between research fields and research in Cultural and Social Studies”: “Representation as Marginalisation or Empowerment? On the Potential of Participatory Approaches in Interview Research with Roma”
12/2022

Rhode Island College (USA) in Carse Ramos’ course: “Perpetrators and perpetration in genocide” (digital)
11/2022

Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (Netherlands) in Gabrielė Chlevickaitė’s course: “Entering the Tiger Zone. Conducting interviews with perpetrators” (digital)
03/2022

Rutgers University, Newark (USA) in Willa-Rae Culpepper Witherow’s course: “Rethinking Perpetration in Genocide. Motivations, Action and Agency.” (digital)
04/2021

Rutgers University, Newark (USA) in Willa-Rae Culpepper Witherow’s course: “Why do people participate in genocide? Motivations of low-level perpetrators” (digital)
03/2021 American University of Armenia, Yerevan (Armenia) in Suren Manukyan’s course “Comparative Genocide”: “Why do people kill? Motivations of low-level perpetrators in Cambodia and beyond” (digital)
02/2021 University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany) in BA lecture Qualitative Methods I: “Data collection by qualitative interviews”
10/2020

University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany) in lecture series ‚Democracy‘: “The long shadow of the violent past between democracy and autocracy in Cambodia and Rwanda” (in German)
10/2020

Brigham Young University (USA) in Christopher Davey’s course: “Complex political perpetrators. Micro-dynamics of the Khmer Rouge violence and its aftermath” (digital)