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, an associate editor of the American Journal of Cultural Sociology and a consulting editor at Acta Sociologica.
His research interests include cultural and political sociology, social transformations, inequality and moral economy, and integrating qualitative, meaning-centered methods with computational approaches. His current work focuses on perceptions of disruptive economic change, social trust, and context-sensitive text-as-data approaches. 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, argues that the way we remember past inequalities shapes our sense of justice in the present. It examines popular experiences of the East German and the Czech post-1989 transformations in a comparative perspective.