John Lott is a senior research scientist at the University of Maryland, College Park. He is the author of more than 90 scholarly articles as well as the books More Guns, Less Crime, The Bias Against Guns, and Freedomnomics.
He has formerly held research positions at the University of Chicago, Yale University, the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and the American Enterprise Institute.
He received his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1984.