Zoe Genevieve LeBlanc serves as an Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign with dual appointments in the School of Information Sciences and the Center for South Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, while also maintaining an affiliation with the Center for Global Studies. Dr. LeBlanc's research expertise spans Global Governance, Digital Humanities, and Digital Libraries, with particular focus on how digital technologies intersect with cultural understanding and historical interpretation. Her work critically examines power dynamics in digital environments, methodological approaches to incomplete datasets, and the implications of digitization practices for historical scholarship. Analysis of her recent publications reveals a consistent trajectory examining how digital tools reshape scholarly research practices and cultural heritage preservation. Her work demonstrates sophisticated engagement with user-generated content in digital libraries, speculative methodologies for working with missing data, and critical approaches to decolonization through digitized historical materials. A significant portion of her research addresses timely issues in cultural heritage preservation, notably her contributions to the Saving Ukrainian Cultural Heritage Online (SUCHO) initiative. Dr. LeBlanc's scholarly profile reflects a commitment to interdisciplinary research that bridges technical information science with humanistic inquiry, addressing critical questions about how digital systems mediate our understanding of global cultures, histories, and governance structures.







