Publications of Karen Lillie

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

Male Heirs and Self-Made Women? Gender, Extreme Wealth and the Ivy League. In: AERA Open 11, 2025.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

[Book Review] Who Is Who? Reflections on Empirical Evidence from Britain: Reeves, Aaron; Friedman, Sam: Born to Rule: The Making and Remaking of the British Elite (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2024). In: European Journal of Sociology, 2025.

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.

Elite Schooling. In: Ravinder K. Sidhu, Yi'En Cheng, Johanna L. Waters (eds.), Elgar Encyclopedia of the Sociology of Education. Elgar Encyclopedias in Sociology. 2025, 109–111.

Replication Package: Male Heirs and Self-made Women? Gender, Extreme Wealth and the Ivy League. openICPSR, October 15, 2025.

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

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

Gucci-Schuhe und Rolex zur Schuluniform: Interview Susanne Lenz / Karen Lillie. In: Berliner Zeitung, 17, January 21, 2026, 11.

Leben im Schweizer Luxus-Internat: "Oh Miss, ich nehme keine Linienflüge": Interview Anna Schmid / Karen Lillie. In: Focus online, December 6, 2025.