Karen Lillie

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Senior Researcher at the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, in the Wealth and Social Inequality research group. I am an expert in elite education as it intersects with wealth, social class, race, and gender. I have a BA in anthropology from Princeton University, an MPhil in Politics, Development and Democratic Education from the University of Cambridge, and a PhD in Education, Practice and Society from UCL.

Experience

  • 2022–present
    Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
  • 2021–2022
    Postdoctoral fellow, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies

Education

  • 2020 
    University College London, PhD in Education, Practice and Society
  • 2015 
    University of Cambridge, MPhil in Politics, Development and Democratic Education
  • 2009 
    Princeton University, BA in Anthropology

Publications

  • 2024
    From a National Elite to the Global Elite: Possibilities and Problems in Scaling Up, The British Journal of Sociology
  • 2024
    Geographies of Wealth: The Materiality of an Elite School in Switzerland, Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics of Education
  • 2024
    Practices of Consumption: Cohesion and Distinction within a Globally Wealthy Group, Sociology
  • 2022
    Adaptations to Global Changes: Strategic Evolutions of an Elite School, 1961-2011, History of Education
  • 2021
    Mobile and Elite: Diaspora as a Strategy for Status Maintenance in Transitions to Higher Education, British Journal of Educational Studies
  • 2021
    Multi-Sited Understandings: Complicating the Role of Elite Schools in Transnational Class Formation, British Journal of Sociology of Education
  • 2021
    Revisiting the Un/ethical: The Complex Ethics of Elite Studies Research, Qualitative Research

Grants and Contracts

  • 2017
    UCL, Bloomsbury and East London Doctoral Training Partnership
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Economic and Social Research Council
  • 2009
    Fulbright Fellowship
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    US Department of State
  • 2007
    Adel Mahmoud Scholar’s Program
    Role:
    Funding Source:
    Princeton University

Professional Memberships

  • British Sociological Association
  • German Sociological Association

Contact Karen for

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  • Consulting / Advising
  • Research collaboration