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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. She researches and teaches extensively in American constitutional and legal history, religion and religious experience, and property. Her book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (University of North Carolina, 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 20th century, titled Sacred Rights: Religion and the Constitution in Modern America (Harvard University, forthcoming 2010). Gordon serves on the advisory boards of the National Constitution Center, the American Society for Legal History, Vassar College, the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and the Mormon History Association. In 2004 and 2009, she received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Teaching Excellence.
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Representative Professional Positions
Penn Law - Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History (2006- ); Associate Dean for Academic Affairs (2000-02); Professor (1998-2006); Assistant Professor (1994-98); Joint Appointment History Department (1998- )
Law Clerk to the Hon. Arlin M. Adams, U.S. Third Circuit Court of Appeals (1986-87)
Fine, Kaplan & Black – Associate (1987-89); Trustee, Vassar College (1998- )
Rockefeller Fellow, Center for Human Values, Princeton University (1997-98)
Pew Fellow in Religion and American History, Yale University (1997-98)
Fellow, Center for Law and Public Affairs, Princeton University (2002-03)
Representative Publications
THE SPIRIT OF THE LAW: RELIGIOUS VOICES AND THE CONSTITUTION IN MODERN AMERICA (forthcoming, Harvard Univ. Press, 2010).
CONVICTIONS: MORMON POLYGAMY AND CRIMINAL LAW ENFORCEMENT IN NINETEENTH-CENTURY UTAH, Kathryn Daynes, co-author (forthcoming Univ. Illinois Press)
The New Age and the New Law: Malnak v. Yogi and the Definition of Religion in Constitutional Law, (forthcoming in Leslie Griffin, ed., RELIGION AND LAW STORIES, Foundation
Press 2009)
Faith as Liberation: The Nation of Islam and Religion in Prison, 1940-1975, LAW &
HIST. REV. (forthcoming, 2009).
The New Age and the New Law: Malnak v Yogi and the Definition of Religion in
Constitutional Law (forthcoming in Leslie Griffin, ed., RELIGION AND LAW STORIES, Aspen Press
2009)
Religion and Law, 1790-1920, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW, eds. Michael
Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins (Cambridge University Press 2008).
“Free” Religion and “Captive” Schools: Catholics, Protestants, and School Funding at Mid-Century, 56 DEPAUL L. REV. 1177 (2007).
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Friendship and Scholarship: A Report from the Archives (Utah State Univ. Press 2007).
Religion and Law, 1790-1920, in CAMBRIDGE HISTORY OF AMERICAN LAW (Michael Grossberg & Christopher L. Tomlins, eds., Cambridge Univ. Press, 2008).
Where the Action Is: Religion and Law, 18 Religion and American Culture 249 (2008).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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).
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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