Contact / CV

BIO

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor. Her work centers on the history of human sciences (psychoanalysis, psychology, and psychiatry), the history of technology and media, feminist science and technology studies, and media theory. Zeavin is an Associate Professor of History (Science / North America fields) in the Department of History and The Berkeley Center for New Media at UC Berkeley.

Zeavin is the author of the award winning books, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy (2021, MIT Press) and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press, April 2025). She is at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press), for which she received a 2022 Works in Progress Grant from the Robert B. Silvers Foundation, a 2024 Whiting Foundation Non-Fiction Grant, and a 2026 John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship.

In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis, a magazine for psychoanalysis on the left. She also serves as an Associate Editor for Psychoanalysis & History, an Editorial Advisor for the Psychoanalytic Acts Book Series, on the editorial board of Television and New Media, and a series editor of Palgrave’s Studies in the Psychosocial.

Other academic work has appeared in differences: A Journal of Feminist Studies, Technology and Culture, American Imago, Media, Culture, & Society, The Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, and elsewhere. Essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, The Paris Review, and elsewhere.

Zeavin received her B.A. from Yale University in 2012 and her Ph.D. from the Department of Media, Culture, and Communication at NYU in 2018.

CONTACT

Zeavin is represented by Jim Rutman at Sterling Lord Literistic in New York City and by Emma Paterson at Aitken Alexander Associates in London.