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. 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". 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. ==Personal life==