Margaret Strobel

Margaret Strobel (born 1946) is a retired US academic. She studied the history of African women during European colonialism and ran the Women's Studies Program at University of Illinois Chicago.

Early life

Margaret Ann Strobel was born February 15, 1946, in Grand Forks, North Dakota in the United States.^[1]^: 213 She attended schools in Grand Forks and St. Louis, Missouri, then studied at Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship.^[1]^: 213 Strobel took her PhD in African studies at UCLA on a Fulbright-Hays Scholarship in 1975, having decided to write her dissertation on African women's history.^[2]^[1]^: 213 This joined together her research interests on both feminism and African history.^[1]^: 213

Career

Strobel worked first at UCLA and then San Diego State University as a lecturer and then became associate professor in women's studies and history at the University of Illinois Chicago, becoming professor in 1986.^[1]^: 214 She also ran the Women's Studies Program.^[2] Her first book was Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890–1975 (published 1979) which pioneered the study of African women during European colonialism.^[3] In 1991, Strobel released European Women and the Second British Empire which tracked the history of European women in colonial countries.^[3] The following year she edited Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History: Essays on Women in the Third World together with Cheryl Johnson-Odim. This book examined various histories of women in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.^[4] A reviewer for the Journal of World History commented "with books like Strobel's, we can now say that we have an idea of the lives of women as well as men".^[3]

Strobel received fellowships from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Woodrow Wilson Foundation. In 1993, the University of Illinois Chicago presented her with an award for teaching excellence and as of 2023, she was professor emerita of Gender and Women's Studies there.^[2]^[1]^: 214

Personal life

Strobel married a fellow academic and together they had one child.^[1]^: 214

Selected works

(eds) Johnson-Odim, C. & Strobel, M. (1992) Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History: Essays on Women in the Third World
Strobel, M. (1991) European Women and the Second British Empire
Strobel, M. (1979) Muslim Women in Mombasa, 1890–1975

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Scanlon, Jennifer (1996). American women historians, 1700s–1990s: A biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1-4294-7636-2.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Strobel, Margaret". University of Illinois Chicago. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
^ ^a ^b ^c Zinsser, Judith P. (1993). "Review of European Women and the Second British Empire". Journal of World History. 4 (2): 344–347. ISSN 1045-6007. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.
^ Mead, Karen (1995). "Review of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History: Essays on Women in the Third World". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 75 (1): 84–85. doi:10.2307/2516787. ISSN 0018-2168. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.

[Historians-1] ^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e ^f ^g Scanlon, Jennifer (1996). American women historians, 1700s–1990s: A biographical dictionary. Westport, Conn.: Greenwood Press. ISBN 978-1-4294-7636-2.

[Chicago-2] "Strobel, Margaret". University of Illinois Chicago. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.

[JWH-3] Zinsser, Judith P. (1993). "Review of European Women and the Second British Empire". Journal of World History. 4 (2): 344–347. ISSN 1045-6007. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.

[Mead-4] Mead, Karen (1995). "Review of Expanding the Boundaries of Women's History: Essays on Women in the Third World". The Hispanic American Historical Review. 75 (1): 84–85. doi:10.2307/2516787. ISSN 0018-2168. Archived from the original on March 24, 2022. Retrieved April 13, 2023.

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