Hannah Zeavin, PhD

Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor. She works as a Lecturer in the Department of History at the University of California, Berkeley and is on the Executive Committee of the University of California at Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society and on the Executive Committee of the Berkeley Center for New Media. Additionally, she is a visiting fellow at the Columbia University Center for the Study of Social Difference. Zeavin’s first book is The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters. Other work has appeared in Bookforum, differences, Dissent, The Guardian, The Los Angeles Review of Books, n+1, Slate, Technology & Culture, The Washington Post, and beyond. In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis Magazine. She also serves as an Editorial Associate for The Journal of the American Psychoanalytic Association.