VITA Timothy Williams
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EDUCATION |
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2017 |
PhD Political Science (focus on Peace and Conflict Studies) at Marburg University (Germany) awarded: summa cum laude (with the highest distinction) |
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2011 |
MSc Comparative Politics (Conflict Studies Stream) at the London School of Economics and Political Science (UK) |
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2010 |
BA Political Science at Mannheim University (Germany), including Erasmus at American University in Bulgaria (2009) |
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PROFESSIONAL APPOINTMENTS |
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Seit 12/2019 |
Bundeswehr University Munich (Germany) Junior professor of insecurity research and social order |
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05/2017-09/2019 |
Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany) Post-doctoral research fellow in project “Cultural Heritage of Conflict: Peacebuilding and the Politics of Memory” |
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04/2013-09/2019 |
Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany) Research and teaching fellow |
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07/2019 |
Faculty of Social Sciences and International Relations at Pannasastra University (Cambodia) Visiting professor |
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11/2017-12/2018 |
Centre for Conflict Studies at Marburg University (Germany) Project leader and post-doctoral research fellow in project “Victimhood after mass violence. How victim participation at the ECCC and other dealing with the past projects effect justice” |
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01/-03/2018 |
Center for Southeast Asian Studies at American University of Phnom Penh (Cambodia) Affiliate research fellow |
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06/-12/2016 |
International Nuremberg Principles Academy (Germany) Peer Academic Writing Mentor, consulting research fellows on research design, methodology and writing competitive academic papers |
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07/2015 |
Armenian Genocide Memorial and Institute in Yerevan (Armenia) Lemkin Scholarship Fellow |
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01/-07/2012 |
Maplecroft in Bath (UK) Country risk researcher with regional focus: Asia, particularly South and Southeast Asia; topical focus: conflict and terrorism, human security, governance, human, civil and political and labour rights |
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09/-11/2011 |
Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok (Thailand) Research Scholarship to conduct research on the Muslim secessionist conflict in Southern Thailand (funded by the Royal Thai Embassy in London) |
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05/-07/2009 |
Peace Research Institute Frankfurt (Germany) Research internship |
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10/2008-04/2010 |
Chair of Political Science III (Prof. Dr. W. C. Müller), Mannheim University (Germany) Student research assistant |
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AWARDS |
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06/2018 |
PhD Award 2017 of Marburg University for PhD thesis (tied to prize sum of 1,000€) |
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06/2018 |
Gert-Sommer-Award for Peace Psychology of the Forum Friedenspsychologie [Forum for Peace Psychology] for PhD thesis (tied to prize sum of 1,000€) |
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07/2017 |
Emerging Scholar Prize of the International Association of Genocide Scholars (tied to prize sum of 1,000 USD) |
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07/2015 |
Raphael Lemkin Scholarship of the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Institute |
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GRANTS AND SCHOLARSHIPS (SELECTION) |
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01/2019-07/2020 |
British Academy ‘Tackling the UK’s International Challenges: Justice, Rights and Equality’ Grant for research project “Perpetrators' Reflections on Kwibuka25: Accountability and Justice on the 25th Commemoration of the ‘1994 Genocide of the Tutsi’ in Rwanda'” (49,839 GBP) (co-applicant, with Erin Jessee as PI) |
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11/2017-10/2018 |
Grant by German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development (BMZ) for research project “Victimhood after mass violence. How victim participation at the ECCC and other dealing with the past projects effect justice” (€108,043) (PI) |
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09/2013-08/2016 |
Full doctoral scholarship from the Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (stipend plus research and travel costs worth ca. €50,000) |
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07/2015 |
Raphael Lemkin Scholarship of the Armenian Genocide Memorial and Institute of fellowship in Yerevan (Armenia) |
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03/2015 |
Grant for exhibition ‘Entering the Tiger Zone’ on Khmer Rouge participation in Frankfurt, Marburg, Hamburg, Freiburg (Germany); European Parliament in Brussels (Belgium); Siem Reap, Phnom Penh (Cambodia) |
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06/2014 |
Crowdfunding online for field research |
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09/-11/2011 |
LSE Asia Research Centre - Thailand Government Scholarship 2011: two- month field research scholarship in Thailand |
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SERVICE TO THE PROFESSION |
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Academic associations |
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International Association of Genocide Scholars: appointed member of the executive board as emerging scholars representative (since 07/2017, term renewed 07/2019) |
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Editorial board |
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Journal of Perpetrator Research: section editor for Sociology/Politics (since 12/2018) |
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