Jeffrey W. Lockhart
Assistant Professor
Research Interests
Science, Knowledge and Technology; Gender and Sexuality; Computational Social Science; Archival Data
Jeffrey Lockhart is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley. His research explores the social and political dimensions of science and technology as well as the contested boundaries of gender and sexual categories.
Before coming to Berkeley, Lockhart was a James S. McDonnell Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Chicago. He earned a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Michigan in 2022, after an M.Phil. in Multi-Disciplinary Gender Studies at Cambridge University in 2015 (where he was a Gates-Cambridge Scholar), an M.S. in Computer Science from Fordham University in 2014, and a B.S. in Computer Science and Women's Studies from Fordham University in 2013.
Representative Publications
Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch. 2025. “Who Authors Social Science? Demographics and the Production of Knowledge.” Social Currents 12(1):17–29.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Agustín Fuentes, Gina Rippon, and Lise Eliot. 2025. “Not so Binary or Generalizable: Brain Sex Differences with Artificial Neural Networks.” Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 122(2):e2411917121.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2025. “Gender, Sex, and the Constraints of Machine Learning Methods.” Pp. 327–42 in The Oxford Handbook of the Sociology of Machine Learning, edited by C. Borch and J. P. Pardo-Guerra. Oxford University Press.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2023. “Because the Machine Can Discriminate: How Machine Learning Serves and Transforms Biological Explanations of Human Difference.” Big Data & Society 10(1):20539517231155060.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2023. “The Gay Right: A Framework for Understanding Right Wing LGBT Organizations.” Journal of Homosexuality 70(13):3024–50.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W., Molly M. King, and Christin Munsch. 2023. “Name-Based Demographic Inference and the Unequal Distribution of Misrecognition.” Nature Human Behaviour 7(July 2023):1084–95.
Lee, Katharine MN., Tamara Rushovich, Annika Gompers, Marion Boulicault, Steven Worthington, Jeffrey W. Lockhart, and Sarah S. Richardson. 2023. “A Gender Hypothesis of Sex Disparities in Adverse Drug Events.” Social Science & Medicine 339(2023):116385.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2021. “Paradigms of Sex Research and Women in STEM.” Gender & Society 35(3):449–75.
Lockhart, Jeffrey W. 2020. “‘A Large and Long Standing Body’: Historical Authority in the Science of Sex.” Pp. 359–86 in Far Right Revisionism and the End of History: Alt/Histories, edited by L. D. Valencia-García. New York: Routledge.
Schwemmer, Carsten, Carly Knight, Emily D. Bello-Pardo, Stan Oklobdzija, Martijn Schoonvelde, and Jeffrey W. Lockhart. 2020. “Diagnosing Gender Bias in Image Recognition Systems.” Socius 6:1–17.