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A "Self-Made" Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth. In: Sociology, 2025.

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Geographies of Wealth: The Materiality of an Elite School in Switzerland. In: Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education 45(3), 2024, 382–395.

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Lillie, Karen, Anne-Sophie Delval

Introduction to the Special Issue: Switzerland as a Site of Capital Accumulation: The Case of International Education. In: Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50(2), 2024, 127–142.

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Lillie, Karen, Claire Maxwell

Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group. In: Sociology 58(3), 2024, 682–698.

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Maxwell, Claire, Karen Lillie

From a National Elite to the Global Elite: Possibilities and Problems in Scaling Up. In: British Journal of Sociology 75(5), 2024, 938–945.

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Lillie, Karen

Adaptations to Global Changes: Strategic Evolutions of an Elite School, 1961–2011. In: History of Education 51(2), 2022, 286–303.

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Lillie, Karen, Lisbeth Matzer, Lilli Riettiens

Power Relations, Preservation and Voice: Introducing the Special Issue on Writing Histories of Education with Autobiographical Materials. In: Paedagogica Historica 58(3), 2022, 321–328.

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Lillie, Karen

Multi-Sited Understandings: Complicating the Role of Elite Schools in Transnational Class Formation. In: British Journal of Sociology of Education 42(1), 2021, 82–96.

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Lillie, Karen, Pere Ayling

Revisiting the Un/Ethical: The Complex Ethics of Elite Studies Research. In: Qualitative Research 21(6), 2021, 890–905.

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Issue

Lillie, Karen, Anne-Sophie Delval (eds.)

Switzerland as a Site of Capital Accumulation: The Case of International Education. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, Volume 50(2). 2024.

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Lillie, Karen, Claire Maxwell

Who Are the Global Super-Rich of Tomorrow? We Interviewed Teens at One of the World’s Most Expensive Schools to Find Out. In: The Conversation, 2024.

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Contribution to a Collected edition

Lillie, Karen

In Pursuit of the Frontier: Changes at an American School in Switzerland. In: Bernhard Hemetsberger, Andreas Oberdorf (eds.), Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “the West” in the History of Education. Berlin: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2025, 167–180.

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Data Publication

Lillie, Karen, Daria Tisch

Replication Package: A "Self-Made" Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth. OSF, October 2, 2025.

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Tisch, Daria, Charlotte de Alwis, Karen Lillie

Forbes 400 (2023) with Dynastic Wealth Classification. OSF, August 6, 2025.

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