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 a B.A. 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) The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University Press, 2010) . The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) .
External links
Gordon's biography at University of Pennsylvania
Living people
1955 births
Date of birth missing (living people) Legal historians University of Pennsylvania faculty University of Pennsylvania historians Vassar College alumni Yale Law School alumni Princeton University alumni 21st-century American historians American women historians 21st-century American women writers