Gwen Kennedy Neville

Southwestern University | Professor EmeritusMember since 1968

My Biography

Dr. Neville received the PhD from the University of Florida. She taught at Emory University for eight years before moving to Southwestern University in Georgetown, Texas, where she held the Elizabeth Root Paden Chair until her retirement. She is the author of Kinship and Pilgrimage: Rituals of Reunion in American Protestant Culture and The Mother Town: Civic Ritual, Symbol, and Experience in the Borders of Scotland, both published by Oxford University Press, and of numerous articles in professional journals and collections.