Zoe LeBlanc

Zoe LeBlanc is an Assistant Professor at the School of Information Sciences at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Her work bridges digital humanities, cultural heritage, and histories of information, with a focus on postcolonial critiques of data systems and computational methods.

• Education: PhD in History, Vanderbilt University (2019)
• Prior roles: Postdoctoral Associate/Weld Fellow at Princeton University's Center for Digital Humanities; Digital Humanities Developer at University of Virginia's Scholars' Lab

Research interests span digital libraries, data curation, cultural analytics, and diversity in data science, emphasizing how information structures shape power dynamics and liberation politics. She explores anti-colonial historiography, machine learning applications in humanities, and critical data studies.

Recent articles analyze computational approaches to historical periodicals, decolonial data frameworks, and collaborative digital scholarship. She actively contributes to the Programming Historian editorial board and the Association for Computers and the Humanities executive committee. Her technical expertise includes building web applications for mapping and data visualization in humanities contexts.