Dr. Karen Lillie

since 2022
Senior Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

since Sept. 2024
Co-Convenor, Sociology of Elites Study Group, British Sociological Association

Jan. 2023-Jan. 2026
Member of the Editorial Board of the journal Sociology

2021-2022
Postdoctoral Researcher, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, Cologne

2016-2020
PhD, Education, Practice and Society, University College London

2014-2015
MPhil, Politics, Development and Democratic Education, University of Cambridge

2005-2009
BA, Anthropology, Princeton University

Awards and honors (selected)

2017-2020
PhD funding, Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)  

2009-2010
Fulbright Fellowship  

2009
Dean Hank Dobin Thesis Prize, Princeton University, honorable mention  

2007-2009
Adel Mahmoud Scholar's Program, Princeton University