Gasaway Hill is a professor and the inaugural Edward and Linda Speed Peace and Justice Fellow at St. Mary’s University, Texas.

[1] Gasaway Hill earned her Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from St. Mary’s University, Texas in 1986.

[2] In 2015, Gasaway Hill was appointed the inaugural Edward and Linda Speed Peace and Justice Fellow[3][4] at St. Mary's University, Texas, where she is a professor.

She is the author of numerous academic articles and books, including The Language of Protest: Acts of Performance, Identity, and Legitimacy (Palgrave MacMillan, 2018)[5] and Stories from the Wake: The Revolutionary Responses of the Sodality of Bordeaux and Small Christian Communities (NACMS Press, 2005) [6] Hill also worked with Ginny McNeill Raska, one of Sallie McNeill's descendants, to transcribe, edit, and provide the historical and anthropological context to the original 19th century diary which is the basis of The Uncompromising Diary of Sallie McNeill, 1858-1867 (Texas A&M University Press, 2009).

[8] In 2020, she was named as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts, in part for her work in the United Kingdom on story, forgiveness, and service locally and internationally at “Storywork: A Summer School in Narrative Practice” at the Corrymeela Community Peace and Reconciliation Centre in Ballycastle, Northern Ireland in 2018 and 2019.