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Margaret Strobel

Margaret Strobel 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. She attended schools in Grand Forks and St. Louis, Missouri, then studied at Michigan State University on a National Merit Scholarship. This joined together her research interests on both feminism and African history. ==Career==
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. 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==
Personal life
Strobel married a fellow academic and together they had one child. ==Selected works==
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==
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