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
Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems
Socius. Image recognition systems offer the promise to learn from images at scale without requiring expert knowledge. However, past research suggests that machine learning systems often produce biased output. In this article, we evaluate potential gender biases of...
‘A Large and Longstanding Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex
This chapter draws on the literature reviews of 387 books and articles about sex differences to argue that the scientific authority of the sex binary is often rhetorically established through misleading, revisionist histories of the field. Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2020....
Incorporating Physical Knowledge into Machine Learning for Planetary Space Physics
Recent improvements in data collection volume from planetary and space physics missions have allowed the application of novel data science techniques. The Cassini mission for example collected over 600 gigabytes of scientific data from 2004 to 2017. This represents a...
Public Sociology
The Downside of Moves Towards Gay Equality
Huffington Post, April 10, 2015