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Tel: 215.898.3069
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: sgordon@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- Legal History
- Property Law
- Religion and the Law
Bio
Sarah Gordon is a widely recognized scholar and commentator on religion in American public life and the law of church and state.
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Sarah Gordon is a widely recognized scholar and commentator on religion in American public life and the law of church and state. Gordon researches and teaches extensively in American constitutional history, religion and religious experience, westward expansion, and property. She has been a frequent guest on news and talk shows. Her book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (2002) won the Mormon History Association’s and the Utah Historical Society’s Best Book awards in 2003.
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. She is the recipient of numerous prizes and fellowships and spent the 2004-05 academic year 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, Vassar College, and the Mormon History Association. In 2004, she received the Robert A. Gorman Teaching Award. She holds a secondary appointment in the History Department, where she teaches American religious and constitutional history.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History (2006 -); Professor (1999-06); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2000-02); Assistant Professor (1994-99); Joint Appointment History Department (1998 -)
Visiting Research Fellow, Program in Law & Public Affairs, Princeton University, 2002-03
Law Clerk to Hon. Arlin M. Adams, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals (1986-87)
Representative Publications
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW: RELIGION AND LITIGATION IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY (forthcoming, Harvard Univ. Press)
INLAWS AND OUTLAWS: LESSONS FROM THE UTAH TERRITORIAL COURTS (University of Illinois Press, forthcoming) (with KATHRYN M. DAYNES).
Religion and Law, 1790-1920, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW (Michael Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press , forthcoming 2007).
“Free” Religion and “Captive” Schools: Catholics, Protestants, and School Funding at Mid-Century, DEPAUL L. REV. (forthcoming 2007).
Friendship and Scholarship: A Report from the Archives (forthcoming, Utah State University Press 2007).
Law and the Contact of Cultures, in BLACKWELL COMPANION TO THE AMERICAN WEST, William Deverell, ed. (Blackwell Publishers 2004).
THE MORMON QUESTION: POLYGAMY AND CONSTITUTIONAL CONFLICT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY AMERICA (Univ. of North Carolina Press 2002).
Law and Everyday Death: Infanticide and the Hester Vaughn Case, in LIVES IN THE LAW (Austin Sarat, Lawrence Douglas & Martha Merrill Umphrey eds., Univ. of Michigan Press 2006).
Mormon Polygamy and American History (Conference on Law, Culture and the Humanities, Apr. 2002; Historical Society of Pennsylvania, June 2002).
The Mormon Question and Race in Nineteenth Century America (presented at Mormon History Association, Tucson, May 2002).
The Liberty of Self-Degradation: Antipolygamy, Woman Suffrage and the Law of Marriage and Divorce, J. AM. HIST. 83 (December 1996), reprinted in LAW IN THE WEST (Gordon Bakken & Brenda Farrington eds., Garland Publishing, 2001).
Blasphemy and Religious Liberty in Antebellum America, AM. Q. 52 (Dec. 2000).
The Lives of Women at the Mercy of Law: Hester Vaughn and the Woman's Rights Campaign after the Civil War (Amherst College, Nov. 1999).
The Second American Disestablishment: Blasphemy, Polygamy, and Church-State Relations in the Nineteenth Century (presented at Cornell Program in Ethics & Public Life, Young Scholars Weekend, Apr. 1997; Fordham Law School, Feb. 1998; NYU School of Law, Apr. 1998).
Our National Hearthstone: Anti-Polygamy Fiction and the Sentimental Campaign Against Moral Diversity in Antebellum America, YALE J.L. & HUMAN. 8 (1996).
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