Charles Tilly's Bio
Charles Tilly is currently Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, at Columbia University. Previously he has taught at Delaware, Harvard, Toronto, Michigan, and the New School for Social Research, as well as holding many shorter term research and teaching appointments in Europe and North America. He is helping run the Russian Academy of Sciences – (U.S.) National Academy of Sciences joint project on conflict in multi-ethnic polities.
Tilly's work focuses on large-scale social change and its relationship to contentious politics, especially in Europe since 1500. A member of the National Academy of Sciences, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, the American Philosophical Society, and the Ordre des Palmes Académiques, he has received multiple international prizes and honorary degrees. He has authored, co-authored, edited, or co-edited 50 published books and monographs and published between 600 and 700 scholarly articles, reviews, review-essays, comments, chapters in edited collections, and prefaces not counting reprints, translations, and working papers.
His most recently published books are:
- The Politics of Collective Violence (2003)
- Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (2004)
- Social Movements, 1768-2004 (2004)
- Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (co-authored and co-edited with Maria Kousis, 2005)
- Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (2005)
- Trust and Rule (2005)
- Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties (2005)
- Why? (2006)
- Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (2006, co-edited with Robert Goodin)
- Contentious Politics (2006; co-authored with Sidney Tarrow)
- Regimes and Repertoires (2006)
- Democracy (2007)
Tilly has recently completed his chapters of Politics, Exchange, and Social Life in World History (with John Coatsworth, Juan Cole, Michael Hanagan, Peter Perdue, and Louise A. Tilly, publisher pending), plus Credit and Blame (forthcoming from Princeton University Press).
Tilly's writings on methodology can be found here.
