Biography:

Social worker, educator. Born– Oct. 4, 1929, in Hueytown, Ala. Parents– William M. and Thalia (Bell) Barnett. Married– Anthony M. Shipps on May 25, 1949. Children– One. Education– Utah State University, B.S.; University of Colorado, M.A., Ph.D. Social worker in Chicago and Detroit 1951-1960; project coordinator for Kinsey Institute for Sex Research, Indiana University 1969-1971; instructor Indiana University-Purdue University, Indianapolis; helped edit Dialogue, a Journal of Mormon Thought. Received fellowships from American Association of University Women and from Latter Day Saints Church; member of Natural History Society; American, Western, and Mormon Historical Associations; and Organization of American Historians.

Source:

Who’s Who in the Midwest, 1978.

Publication(s):

Mormonism; the Story of a New Religious Tradition. Urbana, Ill.; University of Illinois Press, 1985.

Twentieth-Century Mormonism And The Secular Establishment. Odgen, Utah; Weber State College Press, 1988.