Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes opinion columns 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.

Zoe Strimpel
Born
Zoe Strimpel

8 July 1982 (1982-07-08) (age 42)
London, England
NationalityBritish
Alma materJesus College, Cambridge
Wolfson College, Cambridge
University of Sussex
Occupation(s)Journalist, academic (Gender Studies)
Years active2010-present

Early life and education

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Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982.[2][3] She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16.[3] She attended the independent 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.[5]

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]

Career

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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 also writes columns for The Sunday Telegraph.

Strimpel has appeared on radio and television as a commentator to discuss topics such as dating, feminism, and diversity,[13][14][15] including the BBC[16] and Al Jazeera.[17] She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.[18][19]

References

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  1. ^ "The Telegraph, Articles".
  2. ^ Strimpel, Zoe. "Like many Jews, I always feel like an outsider". The JC. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  3. ^ a b "London men: playboys or losers". Evening Standard. 10 April 2012. Retrieved 5 April 2024.
  4. ^ The Wolfson Review, 2012-2013 no. 37, Wolfson College, Cambridge, p. 32
  5. ^ a b "Dr Zoe Strimpel". University of Warwick - Department of History. 10 December 2020. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  6. ^ Gunter, Joel (19 May 2008). "Zoe Strimpel joins City AM". journalism.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2018.
  7. ^ "Elle Magazine, Article". 27 April 2015.
  8. ^ "The People's Book Prize Website" (PDF). 20 April 2010.
  9. ^ "HuffPost, Articles". HuffPost.
  10. ^ "Zoe Strimpel (articles)". The Jewish Chronicle. Retrieved 3 January 2023.
  11. ^ "The Spectator, Articles".
  12. ^ "UnHerd, Articles".
  13. ^ Dunant, Sarah (Host) (1 October 2018). The Dating Game (Radio broadcast). When Greeks Flew Kites. BBC.
  14. ^ Gittos, Luke (14 October 2018). "Let's Talk About Sex, Baby". Battle of Ideas. Retrieved 4 November 2018.
  15. ^ Buerk, Michael (Host) (25 July 2018). The Morality of Diversity (Radio broadcast). Moral Maze. BBC.
  16. ^ Murray, Jenni (Host) (18 October 2017). The Problem With #MeToo (Radio broadcast). Woman's Hour. BBC.
  17. ^ Hasan, Mehdi (Host) (10 October 2018). Head to Head - Has #MeToo failed? (Television production). Al Jazeera.
  18. ^ Sales, Nancy Jo (Director) (10 September 2018). Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age (Television production). HBO.
  19. ^ Johnson, Eric (19 September 2018). "'Swiped' HBO documentary - director Nancy Jo Sales explains why swiping on Tinder is addictive". recode.com. Retrieved 4 November 2018.