Jeffrey W. Lockhart
Jeff Lockhart is a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago, in the Department of Sociology and the Knowledge Lab. 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
A gender hypothesis of sex disparities in adverse drug events
Social Science & Medicine Pharmacovigilance databases contain larger numbers of adverse drug events (ADEs) that occurred in women compared to men. The cause of this disparity is frequently attributed to sex-linked biological factors. We offer an alternative Gender...
The Gay Right: A Framework for Understanding Right Wing LGBT Organizations
Journal of Homosexuality While there has been considerable interest in debates about right wing ideas in LGBT movements—military service, marriage, nationalism, white supremacy—there has been comparatively little attention to self-proclaimed right wing LGBT...
Adverse Drug Events by Sex After Adjusting for Baseline Rates of Drug Use
JAMA Network Open Although they have known limitations, spontaneous reporting pharmacovigilance databases like the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS) and World Health Organization VigiBase are widely cited as evidence for...
Public Sociology
2008 & the sociology job market
scatterplot, March 27, 2020
thinking about quality in big data: reddit and missingness
scatterplot, March 17, 2018
Student Perspective (data on the mismatch between ASA student interests and job positings)
SWS Network News, Spring, 2020