Author: Bobbie Groth
Alternate names: Barbara J. Groth
Born: 1953
Bio: <b>Bobbie Groth</b> (b. 1953) is a Unitarian Universalist historian and minister, and a professor of sociology at Alverno College.  She is a <a href="http://www25.uua.org/uuhs/duub/authors/bobbiegroth.html">contributor</a> to the <i>Dictionary of Unitarian and Universalist Biography</i>, and her own works include <i>The Incredible Story of Ephraim Nute</i> (2011), the story of a Unitarian minister and his congregation caught in the midst of the "Bleeding Kansas" strife of the 1850s.  Groth received her undergraduate education from <a href="http://shimer.edu#Brief_description">Shimer College</a>, a <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/curriculum/index.cfm">Great Books school</a>, where she enrolled via the <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/earlyentrantprogram.cfm">early entrance program</a> and <a href="http://www.shimer.edu/academicprograms/undergraduate/shimerinoxfordprogram.cfm">studied abroad at Oxford University</a>.  In addition to her Shimer degree, Groth holds an MS from National Lewis University and a D.Min. from the Meadville/Lombard Theological School.  (from <a href="http://shimercollege.wikia.com/Bobbie_Groth#Brief_description">Shimer College Wiki</a>)