Jeffrey W. Lockhart
Jeff Lockhart is a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. Starting Fall 2025, Lockhart will be an assistant professor in the sociology department at the University of California, Berkeley. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Michigan as well as masters degrees in both gender studies and computer science. His research examines how identities such as sex, gender, sexuality, and race are constructed and contested in scientific, technological, and political arenas. Lockhart uses a mix of computational social science and qualitative archival methods in his research.
Recent Scholarship
Not so binary or generalizable: Brain sex differences with artificial neural networks
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences From Victorian scientists measuring skull volumes to contemporary brain imagers using machine learning (ML), the widely publicized study by Ryali et al. (1) is merely the latest in a long history of attempts to...
Who Authors Social Science? Demographics and the Production of Knowledge
Social Currents Author demographics are of key epistemic importance in science—shaping the approaches to and contents of research—especially in social scientific knowledge production, yet we know very little about who produces social scientific publications. We...
Review: A Kaleidoscope of Identities: Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality
Contemporary Sociology: A Journal of Reviews Lockhart, Jeffrey W., 2024. "Review: A Kaleidoscope of Identities: Reflexivity, Routine, and the Fluidity of Sex, Gender, and Sexuality," by James W. Messerschmidt and Tristan Bridges, Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield....
Public Sociology
it’s the interface
scatterplot, April 27, 2025
Computer algorithms infer gender, race and ethnicity. Here’s how to avoid their pitfalls
Nature Careers, July 5, 2023. DOI: 10.1038/d41586-023-02225-0
What sex-difference science misses about the messy reality of sex
Psyche Magazine, August 17, 2022 (31,000 readers in the first week.)