Sarah Barringer Gordon
Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History
Sarah Barringer Gordon is a widely recognized scholar on the historical role of religion in American political life and the separation of church and state. She is currently working on a new book about religion and law in the twentieth century, titled The Spirit of the Law, which will be published by Harvard University Press. Her first book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (2002) won the Mormon History Association's Best Book Award in 2003 and the Utah Historical Association Best Book Award in 2003. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships and recently was a Fellow at the Center for Law and Public Affairs at Princeton University and a visitor at University College, London. Gordon also served as Associate Dean for Academic Affairs in the Law School from 2000-2002, and is on the advisory boards of the National Constitution Center, the American Society for Legal History, the Mormon Historical Association, and Vassar College. She holds a joint appointment in the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Professor Gordon directs the Penn Legal History Consortium and founded the Penn combined J.D. / Ph.D. Program in American Legal History.
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