Gibbs Awarded ACLS Fellowship

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Christopher Gibbs, assistant professor in the Department of Music in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University at Buffalo, has been awarded an American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) fellowship, with a stipend of $25,000, for the period July 1, 1999 through June 30, 2000.

Gibbs, a faculty member at UB since 1993, will use the fellowship to write a book on the comparative images of Beethoven and Schubert during the 19th century.

ACLS is a funder of humanities research, with its grants designed to permit distinguished scholars to devote a full year to research and writing.

In 1998, Gibbs was the winner of an ASCAP-Deems Taylor Award, presented to authors whose books or articles on music are selected for their excellence. Gibbs' article, "Schubert's Final Years," published in The Schubertiad, was chosen in the symphonic and concert articles category.

He is editor of "The Cambridge Companion to Schubert" and has completed a biography of Schubert for Cambridge University Press.

Gibbs, a graduate of Haverford College, received two master's degrees and a doctorate from Columbia University.