Zoe Strimpel | |
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Born | Zoe Strimpel 8 July 1982 (age 42) London, England |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Jesus College, Cambridge Wolfson College, Cambridge University of Sussex |
Occupation(s) | Journalist, academic (Gender Studies) |
Years active | 2010-present |
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.
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]
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]
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