Faculty

	Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law and Professor of History 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, and has lectured around the country on her book, The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America (2002) which 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. She holds a secondary appointment in the History Department, where she teaches American religious and constitutional history. More information at http://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/sgordon
	Thomas Sugrue, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology Thomas J. Sugrue is Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Professor of History and Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania. A specialist in twentieth-century American politics, urban history, and race relations, Sugrue was educated at Columbia; King's College, Cambridge; and Harvard, where he earned his Ph.D. in 1992. He is author of The Origins of the Urban Crisis (Princeton University Press, 1996), which won the Bancroft Prize in American History, the Philip Taft Prize in Labor History, the President's Book Award of the Social Science History Association, and the Urban History Association Award for Best Book in North American Urban History and was selected a Choice Outstanding Academic Book, an American Prospect On-Line Top Shelf Book on Race and Inequality, and a Lingua Franca Breakthrough Book on Race. It has been translated into Japanese. In 2005, Princeton University Press selected The Origins of the Urban Crisis as one of its 100 most influential books of the past one hundred years and published a new edition of The Origins of the Urban Crisis as a Princeton Classic. More information at http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/sugrue.htm
	Wendell Pritchett, Professor of Law Wendell Pritchett teaches property, urban policy, and legal history. His first book, Brownsville, Brooklyn: Jews, Blacks and the Changing Nature of the Ghetto (University of Chicago Press 2002), explores race relations and public policy in 20th century Brooklyn. Recent work of Pritchett has been published by the Urban Lawyer, Yale Law and Policy Review and the Journal of Urban History. His current research examines the development of post-war urban policy, in particular urban renewal, housing finance and housing discrimination, and he is working on a biography of Robert Weaver, the first Secretary of Housing and Urban Development. Pritchett has specialized in real estate and housing law, representing nonprofit organizations involved in the development of affordable housing and economic development. More information at http://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/pritchet
	Mary Frances Berry, Geraldine R. Segal Professor of History Mary Frances Berry has been the Geraldine R. Segal Professor of American Social Thought and Professor of History since 1987. She received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Michigan and JD from the University of Michigan Law School. She is the author of seven books, including The Pig Farmer's Daugher and Other Tales of American Justice: Episodes of Racism and Sexism in the Courts from 1865 to the Present (1999); Black Resistance, White Law: A History of Constitutional Racism in America (1994, orig. 1971); The Politics of Parenthood: Child Care, Women's Rights, and the Myth of the Good Mother (1993); Why ERA Failed: Politics, Women's Rights, and the Amending Process of the Constitution (1986); Long Memory: The Black Experience in America, with John Blassingame (1982); and Military Necessity and Civil Rights Policy: Black Citizenship and the Constitution, 1861-1868 (1977). Professor Berry teaches the History of American Law, and the History of Law and Social Policy. She also advises students in African American History. More information at http://www.history.upenn.edu/faculty/berry.htm
	Serena Mayeri, Assistant Professor of Law Serena Mayeri’s scholarship to date has focused on the historical impact of progressive and conservative social movements on legal and constitutional change. She has explored how lawyers, judges, activists, politicians, and ordinary citizens reasoned about the relationship between racial justice and women’s rights during the 1960s and 1970s, by examining debates over constitutional equality, sex-segregated education, employment discrimination, and affirmative action. Portions of this work have appeared in the California Law Review and the Yale Law Journal. In addition to antidiscrimination law and legal history, her research and teaching interests also include family law and policy. She is particularly interested in how changing family roles, composition, and structures affect and are reflected in legal doctrines. Mayeri graduated from Yale Law School and earned her Ph.D. in History from Yale. Prior to coming to Penn Law in 2006, she was a Samuel I. Golieb Fellow at the New York University School of Law, and served as a law clerk to Judge Guido Calabresi on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit. More information at http://www.law.upenn.edu/faculty/smayeri
	Karen Tani, J.D. candidate (2007), Ph.D. candidate in History Karen Tani studies twentieth-century American legal and political history, with a focus on the welfare state and the federal Legal Services Program. In 2006, she was designated a Kathryn T. Preyer Scholar by the American Society for Legal History. Her dissertation, tentatively titled "Litigating the American Welfare State, 1937-1976," will explore the role of litigation in shaping and contesting the developing network of social welfare provision in the U.S. after the New Deal. Before attending Penn, she graduated from Dartmouth College , summa cum laude, with a B.A. in History. More information at http://www.history.upenn.edu/grads/n_amer.htm