Sarah barringer gordon wikipedia

Sally Gordon is well known for her work on religion in American public life and the law of church and state, especially for the ways that religious liberty developed over the course of American national history.

She is a frequent commentator in news media on the constitutional law of religion and debates about religious freedom.

In 2015-16, Gordon was a Guggenheim Fellow, and in fall 2017 held the Maguire Chair in Ethics and American History at the Library of Congress.

Sarah barringer gordon wikipedia biography

Gordon has also served as the President of the American Society for Legal History, and serves as co-editor of Studies in Legal History, the book series of the Society. She serves on the boards of the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation and the McDowell-Hartman Foundation, as well as the University of Pennsylvania Press.

In 2011, she received the University’s Lindback Award for distinguished teaching and in 2004 and 2009 the Law School’s Robert A. Gorman Award for Teaching Excellence. In 2012, she was ap