Zoe Zimmermann focuses on colonial knowledge production in seventeenth-century North America. She is interested in studying how colonial naturalists, botanists, and cartographers interfaced with and exploited Indigenous guides and informants and how Indigenous epistemologies were filtered through the colonial lens.

In 2022, she graduated with honors from Brown University with an A.B. in History and Early Modern Studies. Her undergraduate thesis, Footpaths and Ink Spots: Cartographic Encounters and Exploitations in Seventeenth-Century Algonquian Homelands, asked how Algonquian guides influenced the cartography of seventeenth-century New England and New France. Its digital, interactive counterpart can be found at: arcg.is/SWTH. At Brown, she was also heavily involved in Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas, an online database centralizing any recorded instances of the enslavement of Indigenous peoples across the Americas. She also was a Stuart Undergraduate Research Fellow at the John Carter Brown Library.

Additionally, Zoe has a strong interest in archives management. She is currently the lead archivist of The Inning Club, a guerilla archival collective dedicated to preserving university landscapes and histories that are otherwise neglected by staff archivists. Outside of academics, Zoe is a member of TapCats, Princeton's best (and only) tap dance group!