Strober is a labor economist at Stanford University where she is Emerita Professor of Education and Emerita Professor of Economics at the Graduate School of Business. She was founding director of Stanford’s Center for Research on Women (now the Clayman Institute for Research on Women in Gender), President of the International Association for Feminist Economics and Program Officer in Higher Education for Atlantic Philanthropies. Her book on interdisciplinarity, Challenging Habits of Thought: Conversations Across the Disciplines, will be published in 2010.