Professor Earns Appointment as a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians

Sarah Barringer Gordon, Arlin M. Adams Professor of Constitutional Law at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and Professor of History, has been appointed a Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of American Historians (OAH).

Gordon specializes in American religious and constitutional history. She is the author of several books, including The Mormon Question: Polygamy and Constitutional Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America and The Spirit of the Law: Religious Voices and the Constitution in Modern America, as well as nearly 20 academic articles.

Gordon is also a board member of Vassar College and the William Nelson Cromwell Foundation, and is the incoming co-editor of the American Society for Legal History’s book series, “Studies in Legal History.” In 2006, she served on the Scholarly Editions Grant Committee for the National Endowment for the Humanities, as well as the Mellon and Barra Fellowships Committee at the McNeil Center for Early American History. In 2009, she received the Robert A. Gorman Award for Excellence in Teaching from Penn Law and is a 2011 University recipient of a Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching.