Hannah Zeavin
Hannah Zeavin is a Lecturer of Science and Technology in the Department of History at UC Berkeley, and is on the Executive Committee's of the Berkeley Center for New Media and the UC Berkeley Center for Science, Technology, Medicine, and Society. Her research focuses on the coordinated histories of information, media, technology, medicine and the mind. Zeavin's first book, The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy is out from the MIT Press and she is at work on her second book, Mother's Little Helpers: Technology in the American Family (under contract MIT Press), which investigates the ways in which technologized parenting interacts with moral, medical, and psychiatric concepts of parental fitness, presence, and absence across the 20th century and into our present. Other work has appeared or is forthcoming from differences: A Journal of Feminist Cultural Studies, The Guardian, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Review of Books, Slate, and beyond. For more information see: Zeavin.org.
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