Personal Life and Education
Tilly was born on May 20, 1929, in Lombard, Illinois (near Chicago). He graduated from Harvard University with a Bachelor of Arts magna cum laude in 1950 and completed Doctor of Philosophy in Sociology in 1958.
Charles Tilly died on April 29, 2008 from lymphoma. As he was fading in the hospital, he got one characteristic sentence out to early student Barry Wellman: "It's a complex situation." In his obituary, Columbia University president Lee C. Bollinger stated that Tilly "literally wrote the book on the contentious dynamics and the ethnographic foundations of political history". Adam Ashforth, of Northwestern University, described Tilly as "the founding father of 21st-century sociology".
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