Zoe Strimpel | |
Birth Name: | Zoe Strimpel |
Birth Place: | London, England |
Occupation: | Journalist, academic (Gender Studies) |
Nationality: | British |
Alma Mater: | Jesus College, Cambridge Wolfson College, Cambridge University of Sussex |
Years Active: | 2010-present |
Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes a weekly opinion column for The Sunday Telegraph.[1] She has appeared on BBC Radio 4's A Point Of View and presents a podcast on culture called Hyped! with the historian Tom Stammers.
Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982.[2] [3] She grew up in Boston, Massachusetts in the US, and moved back to England aged 16.[3] She attended Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge,[4] where she completed an MPhil in Gender Studies. She then undertook a PhD in Modern British History at the University of Sussex, funded by an Asa Briggs scholarship, before becoming a research fellow for two years on a Leverhulme Trust-funded project at Sussex, Cambridge and the British Library on the business practices of feminist publishers in the 1970s.
In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.[5]
From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM, a business-orientated London daily newspaper.[6] She has written on relations between men and women for Elle,[7] the Sunday Times Style magazine,[8] and HuffPost.[9] She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle,[10] and writes for The Spectator,[11] and UnHerd.[12] She writes a weekly column for The Sunday Telegraph.[1] [13]
Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity,[14] [15] [16] including the BBC[17] and Al Jazeera.[18] She appeared in the HBO documentary in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.[19] [20]