TEACHING Timothy Williams

Timothy Williams' teaching focuses on various aspects of his reserach and he is open to supervising BA and MA theses in areas of his expertise.

Responsible instructor – MA level

University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany)

Workshop: Conducting Qualitative Interviews for Masters and PhD students (in German, 2021) (with Michael Ernst-Heidenreich and Carmen Klement)

Seminar: Violence and Conflict in Southeast Asia (in German, 2021) (co-taught with Marc Frey)

Colloquium: MA colloquium (in German, 2021, 2022)

Research seminar: Racism. Structures, Politics, Resistance (in German, 2020)

Seminar: Perpetrators during and after genocide (in German, 2020)

Responsible instructor – BA level

University of the Bundeswehr Munich (Germany)

Module responsibility: Transnational and international conflicts and global peacebuilding (since 2021)

Lecture: International and intra-state conflicts. Introduction to the empirical and theoretical foundations of peace and conflict studies (in German, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Seminar: Racism Comparative perspectives on political institutions and societal tensions (2023)

Seminar: Qualitative Methods II: Qualitative interviews (in German, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2024)

Seminar: Remembering, commemorating and representing violent pasts (in German, 2020)

Seminar: Politics seminar with introduction to academic methods: Violence in peaceful societies (in German, 2020)

Seminar: Politics seminar with introduction to academic methods: Political violence beyond war (in German, 2022)

Text analysis (in German, 2020, 2021, 2022, 2024)

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)