Till Hilmar

Till received his PhD in sociology from Yale University in 2019 and is a postdoctoral researcher at the Department of Sociology, University of Vienna. He is a faculty fellow at Yale University's Center for Cultural Sociology and an assistant 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. His book Deserved. Economic Memories after the Fall of the Iron Curtain (New York: Columbia University Press, 2023) examines popular experiences of the East German and the Czech post-1989 transformations in a comparative perspective.

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