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.

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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 .