The Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly Fund for Social Science History

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 403-404
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Science History ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
Charles Tilly ◽  
Graduate Research ◽  
The Social ◽  
Historical Social Science

At the Albert O. Hirschman Prize ceremony in October 2008, the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), in cooperation with the Social Science History Association, announced the inauguration of the endowed Tilly Fund in celebration of the lifelong contributions of Charles Tilly and Louise Tilly (see www.ssrc.org/programs/tilly-fund-for-social-science-history). Charles Tilly died just a few weeks after receiving that year's Hirschman Prize. The Tilly Fund provides travel grants to graduate students participating in meetings of the Social Science History Association and awards an annual Tilly Prize for the Best Graduate Paper in Social Science History. Funds permitting, it will also support graduate research and other activities with the goal of advancing historical social science, the interdisciplinary field to which both Charles and Louise devoted their careers.

Great Expectations and Secular Depreciation: The First Ten Years of the Social Science History Association

1987 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 329-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allan G. Bogue
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political History ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Draft Report ◽  
Science History ◽  
Great Expectations ◽  
Early National Period ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social

The idea of forming a new scholarly association has been generated in the lonely study of scholars hungry for supportive contact, in the interaction of kindred seekers in convention bars or bull sessions, and no doubt, in many other kinds of circumstances. The Social Science History Association began as an exercise in transmogrification, and although, in retrospect, its origin may appear to have been an act of secession, it was not intended as such. Institutional manifestation of what came to be called the “New Political History” was apparent as early as 1957 when a small group of historians interested in the political history of the American early national period met at Rutgers under the sponsorship of the Social Science Research Council to discuss the methodology of political history. The draft report of that conference, prepared by Richard P. McCormick (1957), rather accurately forecast significant developments during the next decade.

Remarks on the Awarding of the Albert O. Hirschman Prize to Charles Tilly

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 395-402 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joan W. Scott
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Political Theory ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Academic Excellence ◽  
Grey Zone ◽  
Formal Models ◽  
Local Structures ◽  
Charles Tilly ◽  
The Social

The Albert O. Hirschman Prize is the highest award of the Social Science Research Council (SSRC). It recognizes academic excellence in international, interdisciplinary social science research, theory, and public communication in the tradition of the German-born American economist for whom it is named. It makes sense that the SSRC honors Hirschman in this way, for he was, as one biographical summary puts it, a “maverick economist.” The same biography says that Hirschman lived in “the grey zone between economic and political theory,” forging connections between them in unusual and extremely creative ways (homepage.newschool.edu/het//profiles/ hirschm.htm). His work in development economics insisted on attention to local structures and indigenous resources, arguing against the application of formal models and standard criteria, the dominant approach of modernization theorists. Ever concerned about political democracy, he explored its relationship to economics.

On the Practice of Originality

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 389-394 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ira Katznelson
Keyword(s):  
Social Science ◽  
Research Council ◽  
Predictive Power ◽  
Social Science Research ◽  
Science Research ◽  
Market Society ◽  
Charles Tilly ◽  
The Social ◽  
To Receive ◽  
Science Research Council

I know just how pleased Charles Tilly was to receive the Albert O. Hirschman Prize. The Social Science Research Council (SSRC) is an institution he cherished, and Hirschman is a person for whom Tilly had almost limitless admiration. He particularly esteemed the assertive analytic power and intellectual modesty that characterized Hirschman's “Rival Interpretations of Market Society,” the brilliant 1982 Marc Bloch Lecture that addressed competing interpretations of modern markets as, respectively, “civilizing, destructive, or feeble.” “However incompatible the various theories may be,” Hirschman (1982: 1481) argued, “each might still have its ‘hour of truth’ and/or its ‘country of truth’ as it applies in a given country or group of countries during some stretch of time,” and he concluded by asking whether it is “not in the interest of social science to embrace complexity, be it at some sacrifice of its claim to predictive power?” (ibid.: 1483). These features, too, were hallmarks of Tilly's audacious originality.

Historical Geographic Information Systems and Social Science History

2016 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 741-750 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anne Kelly Knowles
Keyword(s):  
Information Systems ◽  
Geographic Information Systems ◽  
Social Science ◽  
Geographic Information ◽  
Gis Mapping ◽  
Science History ◽  
Strong Basis ◽  
Interdisciplinary Field ◽  
Social Science History ◽  
The Social

The interdisciplinary field of historical geographic information systems (HGIS) took root and flourished at the Social Science History Association (SSHA) in the late 1990s and early 2000s. This essay first recounts the growth of HGIS at SSHA and beyond. It then considers challenges that GIS continues to pose for historians and other scholars, such as the unfamiliarity of its conceptual framework and the time and expense often involved in building HGIS databases. The bare-bones visual culture ofSocial Science Historymay inhibit submissions by HGIS scholars, whose work typically includes color maps. Yet the enduring methodological and interdisciplinary interests of SSHA members provide a strong basis for continuing involvement by historians who use GIS. The essay closes with new directions in HGIS scholarship, including study of empirical uncertainty, historical gazetteers, textual analysis linked to GIS mapping, and comparison of topology and topography.

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