Louise Audino Tilly (December 13, 1930 – March 27, 2018)[1] was an American historian known for utilizing an interdisciplinary approach to her scholarly work, fusing sociology with historical research.
Biographer Carl Strikwerda, states: At a young age, Tilly was influenced to study history by a fourth grade teacher.
Additionally, Tilly's research looked to find how industrialization, the formation of class, and welfare states effected gender and family structures throughout the world.
[4] She later occupied the Michael E. Gellert Professor of History and Sociology, at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, where she was also the chair on the Committee on Historical Studies.
Tilly and Joan Wallach Scott emphasized the continuity and the status of women, finding three stages in European history.