Heidi Strobel

Professor, Art History

About 

Heidi A. Strobel earned a Ph.D. (2002) and an M.A. in art history from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. She also holds a B.A. in European history from Kalamazoo College in Michigan. Her research focuses on 18th-century gender and material culture. She is co-editor, with Jennifer Germann, of “Materializing Gender in 18th-Century Europe” (2016). She is also the author of “The Artistic Matronage of Queen Charlotte (1744–1818): How a Queen Promoted Both Art and Female Artists in English Society” (2011).

Strobel developed expertise in studies through her work on Leicester textile artist Mary Linwood (1755–1845). This research shaped her book “The Art of Mary Linwood: Embroidery, Installation, and Entrepreneurship 1787–1845” (2024). Published in Bloomsbury’s Material Culture and Design series, the book includes a catalog of Linwood’s works.

Grants from the Yale Center for British Art, the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, the American Philosophical Society, the Pasold Textile Research Fund, and the University of Evansville have supported her research. She is an active member of the American Society for 18th-Century Studies, Historians of 18th-Century Art and Architecture, the Textile Society of America, and the American Alliance of Museums. In late 2025, she will publish three articles on Linwood and on embroidery in the late 18th century.

At the University of Evansville in Indiana, Strobel taught art history in the Department of Archaeology and Art History, where she also served as associate dean of the William L. Ridgway College of Arts and Sciences. In addition, she was curator of the Peters-Margedant House, a Usonian home designed by Indiana native William Wesley Peters, chief engineer and apprentice to Frank Lloyd Wright.

At UNT’s College of Visual Arts and Design, Strobel is associate dean of Academic and Student Affairs. She also directs the Interdisciplinary Art and Design Studies Program.