Creator
Christoph Strobel
Historian at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories of the city's immigrant communities.
Christoph Strobel is a history professor at the University of Massachusetts Lowell who recorded oral histories with the city's Cambodian community.[1][2] His research covers colonial and Indigenous relations, world history, and global and comparative views of North American history. He has published three books on immigration.[1]
Lowell oral history
On April 15, 2008, Strobel interviewed Sambath Bo, a Cambodian immigrant living in Lowell, Massachusetts. The recording belongs to the Ethnographic Study of Lowell, MA: Making, Remaking, and Remaking Again, published by UMass Lowell, and it is held in the Greater Lowell oral history collection on the Internet Archive.[2] His interviews with members of Lowell's Cambodian community are preserved there.[1][2]
With Robert Forrant, he co-wrote Ethnicity in Lowell: Ethnographic Overview and Assessment (2011), a study for the National Park Service's Northeast Region Ethnography Program. He was a co-principal investigator on the project, which the park service funded through a $108,000 contract.[1][3] The two also co-edited Big Move: Immigrant Voices from a Mill City, published in Lowell in 2011.[1]
Scholarship
Strobel earned a B.A. in history at Hiram College in Ohio, then an M.A. and Ph.D. in history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst.[1] His books include Daily Life of the New Americans: Immigration since 1965 (2010), The Testing Grounds of Modern Empire (2008), The Global Atlantic 1400–1900, Native Americans of New England (2020), War and Colonization in the Early American Northeast, and Daily Life of Native Americans from Post-Columbian through Nineteenth-Century America, written with Alice Nash.[1][3] Native Americans of New England was a 2021 Choice Outstanding Academic Title.[3][4]
In April 2026 he published Settler Colonial Culture and Thought in the Northeastern United States, which looks at how New English narratives about Indigenous peoples and colonization shaped thought in the region.[5] The department calls him its expert in Native American history. In that role he helped Robert Forrant and Deirdre Hutchison with a newspaper article on Greater Lowell's Native American history for the city's bicentennial.[5]
Works
- Sambath Bo Oral History Interview (Recording)
See also
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 UMass Lowell History Department, Christoph Strobel faculty profile
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Internet Archive, Sambath Bo Oral History Interview, by Christoph Strobel (April 15, 2008)
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 UMass Lowell American Studies, Christoph Strobel faculty profile
- ↑ New England Regional World History Association, Christoph Strobel CV
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 UMass Lowell History Department, News 2026