Sarah Barringer Gordon

Sarah Barringer Gordon 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. from Yale Divinity School and a Ph.D. in history from Princeton University.

Works

Freedom’s Holy Light: Disestablishment in America, 1776–1876
The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America .
The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America .