Sarah W. Whedon teaches in the Department of Theology and Religious History at Cherry Hill Seminary. She has also taught religion, ethics, and women's studies at UCSB, Simmons College, Tufts University, and Newbury College. A statement of teaching philosophy can be found on the pedagogy page.

Sarah began a new research project under the working title Plural Voices: Fundamentalist Mormon Women and American Public Discourse, as a visiting scholar in the Women's Studies Program at Northeastern University. She completed her PhD in Religious Studies, with a doctoral emphasis in Women's Studies at UCSB in September 2007. Her dissertation Hands, Hearts, and Heads: Childhood and Esotericism in American Waldorf Education was directed by Catherine L. Albanese.

Sarah's teaching and research interests include American religious history, New Religious Movements, women and religion, children and religion, contemporary Paganism, and nature religion. She is particularly interested in the growing scholarly conversation between Religious Studies and Childhood Studies. She maintains a working interdisciplinary bibliography for this project.

Outside of academia, her many interests include a passion for food justice and love for her daughter and Godchildren. Along with academic links, you can find some of her friends' websites via the links page.