Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who has written books on the relationship between politics and society.
Tilly was born on May 20, 1929, in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). He was educated at Harvard and Oxford, obtaining the Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1958. He taught at the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of M...
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Charles Tilly (May 27, 1929 – April 29, 2008) was an American sociologist, political scientist, and historian who has written books on the relationship between politics and society.
Tilly was born on May 20, 1929, in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). He was educated at Harvard and Oxford, obtaining the Ph.D. in sociology at Harvard in 1958. He taught at the University of Delaware, Harvard University, the University of Toronto, the University of Michigan, the New School for Social Research, and Columbia University. At Columbia, he was the Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science. Over the course of his career, Tilly wrote more than 600 articles and 51 books and monographs.
He was a member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, the Sociological Research Association and the Ordre des Palmes Academiques.
Tilly received several awards including the Common Wealth Award in sociology in 1982, the Amalfi...
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