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CHARLES HERBERT TILLY
JOSEPH L. BUTTENWIESER PROFESSOR OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
Columbia University
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Biography
Charles Tilly (Ph.D. Harvard, 1958). After teaching 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, Charles Tilly is now Joseph L. Buttenwieser Professor of Social Science, Columbia University. His 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 Contention and Democracy in Europe, 1650-2000 (Cambridge University Press, 2004), Social Movements, 1768-2004 (Paradigm Publishers, 2004), Economic and Political Contention in Comparative Perspective (Paradigm Publishers, co-authored and co-edited with Maria Kousis, 2005), Trust and Rule (Cambridge University Press, 2005), Popular Contention in Great Britain, 1758-1834 (Paradigm Publishers, 2005, revised paperback edition of 1995 book), Identities, Boundaries, and Social Ties (once again Paradigm Publishers, 2005),Why? (Princeton University Press, 2006), the Oxford Handbook of Contextual Political Analysis (co-edited and co-authored with Robert Goodin, Oxford University Press, 2006), Contentious Politics (co-authored with Sidney Tarrow, Paradigm Publishers, 2006), and Regimes and Repertoires (University of Chicago Press, 2006). He 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, forthcoming from Wadsworth/Thomson), plus the books Democracy (Cambridge University Press, forthcoming) and Credit and Blame (publisher pending).
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