Sarah Barringer Gordon (born 1955) is the Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and a professor of history at the

University of Pennsylvania The University of Pennsylvania (Penn or UPenn) is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States. One of nine colonial colleges, it was chartered in 1755 through the efforts of f ...

. She specializes in the history of American religion and law.

Life and career

Gordon holds an A.B. from

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, J.D. from

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, M.A.R. (Ethics) from

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and a

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in history from

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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) American 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 {{US-legal-academic-bio-stub