I’m very excited to announce the CFP for a new special issue on ’Families and Wealth’ for the British Journal of Sociology that we are co-editing with Katie Higgins and Céline Bessière. Please check the call: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/page/journal/1…

LIVES RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM - #Educational #Geographies of the World’s Wealthiest: Global #Billionaires at #Elite American Universities - Karen Lillie, Max Planck Society Tue 5 March 2024 - 12.15 pm - Université de Lausanne - Géopolis Building - Room 5799 centre-lives.ch/fr/agenda/live…

1/ 📢 Thrilled to share my latest paper in #GlobalNetworks, where I delve into international career trajectories. I advocate for a post-colonial conceptualization of cosmopolitan capital to study the valuation of international credentials/capital 🌍🎓 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/gl…

First email in my inbox today: your paper has been accepted. Second email: your (other) paper has been rejected. Academia. The greatest killjoy.

Karen Lillie explores how an elite Swiss boarding school enmeshes itself within a 'global imaginary' of 'safe' Swiss wealth & luxury, with the school & its students articulating a contradictory vision of humility & celebration of institutional wealth. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

How do young people move from inheriting a national economic elite position (in the Global South) to becoming part of a global elite? Karen Lillie & I examine whether an international elite education trajectory can make this a reality: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/14…

Wonderful article which, among its virtues, offers an analytical framework that allows us to problematise the global inequality raised by Branko Milanovic 🔥🔥🔥

Read new research note by Claire Maxwell and Karen Lillie highlighting emerging findings on unique obstacles faced by individuals from the Global South when trying to enter the transnational elite. #EarlyView in the #BJS ➡️ buff.ly/4chPTzB

August's Recommended List, authored by Karen Lillie (Karen Lillie), waves a thread through wealth, history, and elite schools in Germany - using 5 episodes of FreshEd as references. 📝 Read "Egalitarian or elite? The case of the German education system" here: freshedpodcast.com/recommended/li…

How are the next generation of the global economic elite formed? Karen Lillie & I have been following the trajectories taken by young people who attended an elite international school for this purpose...was it successful? theconversation.com/who-are-the-gl…

Interested in the global elite? Check out Claire Maxwell and my media piece covering multiple years and threads of our research on this group. The summary of the summary? Limitless possibilities make for an uncertain future. theconversation.com/who-are-the-gl… via The Conversation ES

Karen Lillie and Claire Maxwell argue that consumptive practices reflected consciously articulated differences within a group of young, wealthy, transnational people. Read “Practices on Consumption” #OpenAccess below. doi.org/10.1177/003803…

🎉 I’m thrilled to announce the release of a special issue I co-edited with Karen Lillie, titled Switzerland as a Site of Capital Accumulation: The Case of International Education, published in the Swiss Journal of Sociology. 📚 #Switzerland #EliteEducation socio-journal.ch/issue/view/595

In our introduction, Karen Lillie and I explore how foreign families, individuals, and local institutions capitalize on Switzerland’s private school market, analyzing its intersection with global capitalism and elite mobility. 🌍💼 socio-journal.ch/article/view/6…

Attention sociologists of elites / elite education / international education - an important special issue with excellent articles! Switzerland as a site of capital accumulation: the case of international education