Till received his PhD in sociology from Yale University in 2019 and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, Vienna University. Before coming to Vienna, he was a postdoctoral researcher at Bremen University’s SOCIUM – Reserach Center on Inequality and Social Policy. He is a faculty fellow at Yale University’s Center for Cultural Sociology and an associate editor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology.

His research interests include qualitative approaches to inequality, cultural and political sociology, social memory, post-1989 transformations, and text-as-data. He is interested in popular ideas about economic inequality and is developing methodological approaches to understand cultural narratives about economic change. Starting March 2024, he is a PI in the Horizon Project CIDAPE on inequality, climate change and the force of political emotions.

His book Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain, published with Columbia University Press in 2023, examines popular experiences of the East German and the Czech post-1989 transformations in a comparative perspective.