Sarah Barringer Gordon

Sarah Barringer Gordon (born 1955) 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. (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) . The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina Press, 2001) .