Sarah Barringer Gordon

Sarah Barringer Gordon (born 1955) is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in the history of American religion and law.

Life and career

Gordon holds an A.B. from Vassar College, J.D. from Yale Law School, M.A.R. (Ethics) from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.

Works

• Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776–1876 (forthcoming)^[when?]
• The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010) ISBN 978-0674046542.
• The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0807849873.

External links

• Gordon's biography at University of Pennsylvania
• Appearances on C-SPAN