Hannah Zeavin is a scholar, writer, and editor whose work centers on the history of human sciences and the history of media technology. Zeavin’s first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is now out from MIT Press, with a Foreword by John Durham Peters and Mother Media: Hot and Cool Parenting in the 20th Century (MIT Press, expected 2025). She is at work on her third book, All Freud’s Children: A Story of Inheritance (US: Penguin Press; UK: Fern Press). 

In 2021, Zeavin co-founded The Psychosocial Foundation and is the Founding Editor of Parapraxis, a new magazine for psychoanalysis. Essays and criticism have appeared in Bookforum, Dissent, The Guardian, Harper’s Magazine, n+1, The New York Review of Books, The New Yorker, and elsewhere. Zeavin is an Assistant Professor in the Department of History at UC Berkeley.