Sarah Barringer Gordon

Sarah Barringer Gordon, also known as Sally 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 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) ISBN 978-0674046542.
• The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (The University of North Carolina Press, 2001) ISBN 978-0807849873.

Sources[]

• University of Pennsylvania bio of Gordon