C.G. (Christina) Williamson, Dr

PhD supervision

• Sjoukje Kamphorst, Carving Communities in Stone. Inscriptions as a medium of Hellenistic Interactions, NWO GSH grant (2015-2021) - promotor prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: https://www.carvingcommunities.com/
• Tom Britton, Agonistic Festival Networks and Imperial Rule during the Hellenistic Period, NWO Open Competition ‘Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world’ (2019-2022) - promotor prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/team-members/tom-britton/ 
• Adam Wiznura, Festival Networks and Regional Identities in Thessaly, NWO Open Competition ‘Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world’ (2019-2022) - promotor prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/team-members/adam-wiznura/
• Robin van Vliet, Anchoring Roman Rule: Rome-oriented Cults and Festivals in the Greek World, OIKOS Anchoring Innovation (2019-2022) - promotor prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf / URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/team-members/robin-van-vliet/http://connectingthegreeks.com/
• Tanya Sieiro van der Beek, Arrival of the Attalids: religious impact and local agency in the region of Hellenistic Pergamon, externally funded (2021-2026)

Teaching portfolio

MA courses:

• Honours College Masterclass and lab ‘Leadership in Historical Perspective’ - a highly selective and interdisciplinary honours program in which students creatively examine styles of leadership in past cultural contexts through a series of lecture by top professors and team projects- course coordinator
• 'Power and Cult in the Hellenistic World' – research seminar with (virtual) excursion to Greece, with J. Pelgrom - new 2021
• ‘The Hellenistic World: Globalization and religious perspectives’ – interdisciplinary course, University of Utrecht (2017)
• ‘Athletes & Oracles: Festival, Sport and Encounter in Ancient Greece’ – research seminar with excursion to Greece, independently (2019) and with O.M. van Nijf - new 2016
•  ‘Landscape and Memory in the Ancient World’ – interdisciplinary course, with B. Reitz-Joosse - new 2017
  - See the resulting student project website: https://landscapeandmemoryintheancientworld.wordpress.com/
• Guest lecturer in courses including: Digital Humanities; Approaches to History; Athens & Rome; The Rise of Cities and States
• Supervision of MA and ReMA theses and tutorials

BA courses:

Third-year courses

• ‘History and Material Culture’ – introductory and interdisciplinary course for students of the minor ‘Classics and Ancient Civilizations’, with L. de Jong – new 2018-19
• ‘Mediterranean World III: Blue Networks’ – network theory applied in an interdisciplinary and cross-chronological course – course coordinator
  - resulting student project website: http://connectedmediterranean.weebly.com
• 'The Beautiful City. Conceptualizing the city in the ancient world' - interdisciplinary seminar with J.W. Drijvers
  - See the resulting student project website: http://beautifulcity2015.weebly.com/
• ‘Death in Antiquity’ – interdisciplinary seminar with L. de Jong
  - resulting student project blogsite: https://deathinantiquity.wordpress.com/
• BA Thesis class: 'Religion, Society and Politics in the Ancient and Modern Times’ – guiding students to their final thesis through a theme – with C. Six (2019), and adapted to the ancient and medieval period, with K. Heidecker (2021)

Second-year courses

• ‘From Alexander to Cleopatra’ – focus on cultural interaction in the Hellenistic world, with C. van Regenmorten (2020) and M. Pagkalos (2021) – new 2019-20
• ‘Social Networking in the Ancient World’ – focus on network analysis and digital skills – new 2018-19
• ‘The Greeks and their Gods’ – Greek religion as cultural history
• 'Premodern Sources' - lecturer of session 'Material Culture', with G. van Oortmerssen and artefacts from the GIA collection

First-year courses

• ‘Ancient History’ – in Dutch and in English
• 'History: Skills' – in Dutch and in English
• 'History: Sources' – in Dutch and in English
• Minor 2015-2016: ‘The Mediterranean World I - Antiquity’ – an interdisciplinary and cross-chronological course focusing on the history of the Mediterranean region (in Dutch)
• Classics: Greece Excursion 2012 and 2016 (RUG with UvA and VU University Amsterdam)

Regular guest lecturer in courses including:

• Digital Humanities (online databases, digital approaches in ancient history)
• Greek Archaeology (Hellenistic sanctuaries)
• Mediterranean Archaeology (Hellenistic urban planning and architecture)