Publications of Karen Lillie

Lillie, K.; Tisch, D.: A "Self-Made" Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth. Sociology (2025)

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

Lillie, K.; Delval, A.-S.: Introduction to the Special Issue: Switzerland as a Site of Capital Accumulation: The Case of International Education. Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50 (2), pp. 127 - 142 (2024)

Lillie, K.; Maxwell, C.: Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group. Sociology 58 (3), pp. 682 - 698 (2024)

Maxwell, C.; Lillie, K.: From a National Elite to the Global Elite: Possibilities and Problems in Scaling Up. British Journal of Sociology 75 (5), pp. 938 - 945 (2024)

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

Lillie, K.; Matzer, L.; Riettiens, L.: Power Relations, Preservation and Voice: Introducing the Special Issue on Writing Histories of Education with Autobiographical Materials. Paedagogica Historica 58 (3), pp. 321 - 328 (2022)

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

Lillie, K.; Ayling, P.: Revisiting the Un/Ethical: The Complex Ethics of Elite Studies Research. Qualitative Research 21 (6), pp. 890 - 905 (2021)

Lillie, K.; Delval, A.-S. (Eds.): Switzerland as a Site of Capital Accumulation: The Case of International Education (Special issue). Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 50, (2) (2024), 127-303 pp.

Lillie, K.; Maxwell, C.: Who Are the Global Super-Rich of Tomorrow? We Interviewed Teens at One of the World’s Most Expensive Schools to Find Out, The Conversation, (2024)

Lillie, K.: In Pursuit of the Frontier: Changes at an American School in Switzerland. In: Go West! Conceptual Explorations of “the West” in the History of Education, pp. 167 - 180 (Eds. Hemetsberger, B.; Oberdorf, A.). De Gruyter Oldenbourg, Berlin (2025)

Lillie, K.; Tisch, D.: Replication Package: A "Self-Made" Billionaire? Gender and the Myth of Meritocratic Wealth. (2025)

Tisch, D.; de Alwis, C.; Lillie, K.: Forbes 400 (2023) with Dynastic Wealth Classification. (2025)

Lillie, K.; Maxwell, C.: Garantiert Superreichtum den Aufstieg in eine globale Elite? (2025)