I am a writer trained in anthropology and the history of science at Columbia University, where I received my PhD in 2023.  I am currently an Assistant Professor at the Institute for Society and Genetics at UCLA. Previously, I was the Lindt Dissertation Fellow at Columbia. I write about the political and cultural history of science and medicine. My work specializes in the history of the mind and brain sciences from the twentieth century to the present.

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My dissertation and first book project  examine the development of neural engineering and its relation to liberal politics over the twentieth century. I direct the Material Intelligence as Historical Problem project at UCLA. My work has been funded by organizations including the Livescu Foundation, the NSF, the Wenner-Gren Foundation, the Horowitz Foundation, the Chateaubriand Fellowship, the Society for Psychological Anthropology, the Council for European Studies, and the Mellon Foundation.

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You can get in touch at daniellejudithzolacarr@gmail.com, or on twitter @_danielle_carr.