C.G. (Christina) Williamson, Dr

PhD supervision

• Pim Schievink, Creating complex sacred spaces: experience, agency and multivocality in Hellenistic Asklepieia (4th century BC – 1st century BC), NWO GSH PhD grant - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf

  URL: https://complexasklepieia.org/

• Tanja Sieiro van der Beek, Arrival of the Attalids: religious impact and local agency in Hellenistic Pergamon (externally funded) - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
• 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’/RUG - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/
• Adam Wiznura, Contests Connecting Communities: the Regional Festival Networks of Hellenistic Thessaly, NWO Open Competition ‘Connecting the Greeks. Multi-scalar festival networks in the Hellenistic world’/RUG - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/
• Robin van Vliet, Anchoring Roman Rule: Rome-oriented Cults and Festivals in the Greek World, OIKOS Anchoring Innovation/RUG - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf
  URL: http://connectingthegreeks.com/
• Sjoukje Kamphorst, Carving Communities in Stone. Inscriptions as a medium of Hellenistic Interactions, NWO GSH grant/RUG - with prof.dr. O.M. van Nijf (completed 2023)
  URL: https://www.carvingcommunities.com/

Teaching portfolio

MA courses:

• 'Urban Timescapes in the Ancient World'
• 'Sacred Landscapes and Urban Encounters in the post-classical world'
• 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
• ‘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
•  ‘Landscape and Memory in the Ancient World’ – interdisciplinary course, with B. Reitz-Joosse
  - See the resulting student project website 2017: https://landscapeandmemoryintheancientworld.wordpress.com/
• Guest lecturer in courses including: Atelier Living Heritage (Story Maps); Digital Humanities; Approaches to History; Athens & Rome; The Rise of Cities and States

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/

Second-year courses

• The Hellenistic World - new 2023-24
• ‘From Alexander to Cleopatra’ – focus on cultural interaction in the Hellenistic world – 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

First-year courses

• ‘Ancient History’ – in Dutch and English
• 'History I: Introduction
• 'History II: Skills' – in Dutch and English
• 'History III: Historical debates' – in Dutch and English
• 'History IV: Sources' – in Dutch and 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 2015 (RUG with UvA and VU University Amsterdam)

 Guest lecturer in courses including: Premodern Sources; Mediterranean Archaeology (Hellenistic urban planning and architecture)