Authored books
2015. Afro-European Trade in the Atlantic World: The Western Slave Coast, c.1550 – c.1885, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: James Currey. Paperback edition published in 2017. [Reviewed in: Choice, 52/11 (2015); American Historical Review, 120/5 (2015); Africa, 86/1 (2016); Slavery & Abolition, 37/4 (2016); Historische Zeitschrift, 303/1 (2016); Dhau: Jahrbuch für außereuropäische Geschichte, 1 (2016); Comparativ: Zeitschrift für Globalgeschichte und vergleichende Gesellschaftsforschung, 2 (2016); African Affairs, 116/462 (2017); Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, 45 (2017).]
1998. ‘Those Wild Scenes’. Africa in the Travel Writings of Sarah Lee (1791-1856). Glienecke/Berlin and Cambridge/Mass.: Galda & Wilch.
Edited books
2018, with Achim von Oppen. Biographies between Spheres of Empire: Life History Approaches to Colonial Africa, Routledge Special Issues as Books, London & New York: Routledge. (Originally published in 2016 as a special issue of the Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, see below.)
2016, with Geert Castryck and Katja Werthmann. Sources and Methods for African History and Culture: Essays in Honour of Adam Jones, Leipzig: Leipziger Universitätsverlag. Includes Castryck/Strickrodt/Werthmann, ‘Introduction’ (pp. 11-24).
2013, with Robin Law und Suzanne Schwarz. Commercial Agriculture, the Slave Trade and Slavery in Atlantic Africa, Woodbridge and Rochester, NY: James Currey. Includes Law/Schwarz/Strickrodt, ‘Introduction’ (pp. 1-27). Paperback edition published in 2016. [Reviewed in: EH-net (Jan. 2014); International Journal of African Historical Studies, 48/1 (2015).]
2006. Africa, vol. 1 of Women Writing Home, 1700-1920: Female Correspondences across the British Empire, 6 vols., general editor: Klaus Stierstorfer, London: Pickering & Chatto. Includes Strickrodt, ‘Introduction’ (pp. xxvii-xliii).
1999, with Robin Law. 1999. Ports of the Slave Trade (Bights of Benin and Biafra): Papers from a Conference of the Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, June 1998, Stirling: Centre of Commonwealth Studies, University of Stirling, 1999.
Special (edited) issues of journals
2016, with Achim von Oppen. Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth Studies, 44/5: special issue on ‘Biographies between Spheres of Empire’. Includes von Oppen/Strickrodt, ‘Introduction’ (pp. 717-29).
2012, with Achim von Oppen. Journal of Southern African Studies, 38/3: part special issue on ‘Religious Biographies in Southern Africa’ (pp. 429-90). Includes von Oppen/Strickrodt, ‘Introduction: Religious Biography – Transcending Boundaries’ (pp. 429-32).
2012. Transactions of the Historical Society of Ghana, new series, 14: part special issue on ‘Studies in West African Coastal History before 1800’ (pp. 1-130). Includes Jones/Strickrodt, ‘Introduction: Recent Research on the Early Modern History of Atlantic Africa’ (pp. 1-12) and Strickrodt, ‘In Search of a Moral Community: Little Popo and the Atlantic Trade in the Mid-Eighteenth Century’ (pp. 105-30).
Articles in scholarly journals
2010. ‘African Girls’ Samplers from Mission Schools in Sierra Leone (1820s to 1840s)’, History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 37, pp. 189-245.
2007. ‘“If she no learn, she no get husband.” Christianity, Domesticity and Education at the Church Missionary Society’s Female Institution in Nineteenth-Century Sierra Leone’, Comparativ, 5-6: Christian Space and the Shaping of Gender Identities in Africa, ed. Adam Jones, pp. 14-35.
2001. ‘A Neglected Source for the History of Little Popo: The Thomas Miles Papers c.1789-1796’, History in Africa: A Journal of Method, 28, pp. 293-330.
Selected contributions to edited books
2013. ‘Aballow’s Story: The Experience of Slavery in Mid-Nineteenth Century West Africa, as Told by Herself’, in: African Voices on Slavery and the Slave Trade, ed. Alice Bellagamba, Sandra E. Greene and Martin Klein, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 387-403.
2011. ‘The Atlantic Slave Trade and a Very Small Place in Africa: Global Processes and Local Factors in the History of Little Popo, 1680s to 1860’, in: The End of Slavery in Africa and the Americas: A Comparative Approach, ed. Ulrike Schmieder, Katja Füllberg-Stolberg and Michael Zeuske, Berlin: LIT, 15-26.
2009. ‘British Abolitionist Policy on the Ground in West Africa in the Mid-Nineteenth Century’, in: The Changing Worlds of Atlantic Africa: Essays in Honor of Robin Law, ed. Matthew D. Childs and Toyin Falola, Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 155-172.
2008. ‘The Brazilian Diaspora to West Africa in the Nineteenth Century’, in: AfrikaAmerika: Atlantische Konstruktionen, ed. Ineke Phaf-Reinberger and Tiago de Oliveira Pinto, Frankfurt a. M.: Vervuert, 36-68.
2003. ‘“Afro-Brazilians” of the Western Slave Coast in the Nineteenth Century’, in: Enslaving Connections: Western Africa and Brazil during the Era of the Slavery, ed. José C. Curto und Paul E. Lovejoy, Amherst, N. Y.: Prometheus/Humanity Books, 213-224.
Selected recent book reviews and conference reports
2013. Journal of African History, 54, pp. 314-16: Review of Kevin G. Lowther, The African American Odyssey of John Kizell: A South Caroline Slave Returns to Fight the Slave Trade in His African Homeland, Columbia, SC: The University of South Carolina Press, 2011.
2012. GHIL Bulletin, 34/2, pp. 118-25 and H-Soz-u-Kult, 07.11.2012: Conference report, with Heike Liebau, Achim von Oppen and Sophie Roche: ‘Ruptures and Linkages: Biography and History in the South’ (London, 16-18 Feb. 2012). Go to conference report.
2011. Journal of African History, 51, pp. 422-24: Review of Elizabeth E. Prevost, The Communion of Women: Missions and Gender in Colonial Africa and the British Metropole, Oxford: Oxford UP, 2010.
2006. Journal of African History, 47, pp. 505-06: Review of Wulff Joseph Wulff, A Danish Jew in West Africa: Wulff Joseph Wulff: Biography and Letters 1836-1842, ed. S. A. Winsnes, Trondheim: Faculty of Arts, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, 2004.
2006. The English Historical Review, CXXI, 490, pp. 226-30: Review of K. Morgan, R. Law, J. Oldfield and D. Ryden (eds), The British Transatlantic Slave Trade (4 vols.), London: Pickering & Chatto, 2003.
2005. Journal of African History, 46, pp. 546-7: Review of C. H. Gilliland (ed.), Voyage to a Thousand Cares: Master’s Mate Lawrence with the African Squadron, 1844-1846, Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2004.