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Zoe Strimpel (born 8 July 1982) is a British columnist and commentator. Strimpel writes opinion columns for The Sunday Telegraph. 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.
Early life and education
Strimpel was born into a Jewish family in London in 1982. She grew up in Boston in the United States, and moved back to England aged 16. She attended the independent Bedales School, then studied English at Jesus College, Cambridge, and later attended Wolfson College, Cambridge, 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.
In November 2020, Strimpel became a British Academy postdoctoral fellow at the University of Warwick, researching relational tumult following the Divorce Reform Act 1969.
Career
From 2008, Strimpel was a features and lifestyle writer for City AM, a business-orientated London daily newspaper. She has written on relations between men and women for Elle, the Sunday Times Style magazine, and HuffPost. She has also contributed to The Jewish Chronicle, and writes for The Spectator, and UnHerd. 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, including the BBC and Al Jazeera. She appeared in the HBO documentary Swiped: Hooking Up in the Digital Age in 2018 to discuss online dating apps.