Peter Jeffery

Experience

1992-93 Boston College, Chestnut Hill MA 02167, Visiting Scholar in the Music Department and the Jesuit Institute

1992-93 Harvard University, Music Department, Cambridge MA 02138, Visiting Associate Professor, fall semester

1990-92 Harvard University, Center for Literary and Cultural Studies, Visiting Scholar

1984-93 University of Delaware, Newark DE 19716, Associate Professor (1987-93); Assistant Professor (1984-87), on leave 1988-93 with MacArthur Fellowship

1983-84 New York School of Liturgical Music, Archdiocese of New York, 1101 Second Ave., New York NY 10022, Faculty member (all faculty unranked)

1982-83 Harvard University, Cambridge MA 02138, Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellow in the Humanities

1980-82 Hill Monastic Manuscript Library, St. John's University, Collegeville, Minnesota 56321, Cataloguer of Western Manuscripts, Editor of Publications

1975-80 Princeton University, Princeton NJ 08544, Graduate Student, (Teaching Assistant 1976-9)

1979-80 Princeton Community College Intern Program (taught at Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ), 1979-80

1978-80 Princeton University Peer Counseling Program, 1978-80 (trained in crisis intervention and referral)

Honors, Grants, and Awards

2000-01 Guggenheim Fellowship from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

1994 Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence: Special Citation for Folio, awarded by Music Publishers' Association of the U.S. to A-R Editions, for volume 1 of my book Ethiopian Christian Liturgical Chant (Madison, Wisconsin: A-R, 1993).

1992 Jesuit Institute, Boston College, $1000 Grant-in-Aid to write a report on the feasibility of developing an expanded liturgical music program at Boston College

1990 American Council of Learned Societies Travel Grant to attend fourth meeting of Cantus Planus in Pécs, Hungary

1987-92 MacArthur Fellowship ("Genius Award") from the John D. And Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, $220,000

1986-8 National Endowment for the Humanities, $100,000 grant for a joint two-year project with Professor Kay Shelemay (then at New York University), "Oral and Written Transmission in Ethiopian Christian Chant"

1986 Gold Cindy ("CINema INDustrY") Award, given by the Association of Visual Communicators (formerly the Industrial Film Producers Assocation) to The University of Delaware Videodisc Music Series, for First Place in the class "Level I Video Discs." I was one of many people involved in the preparation of this videodisc series.

1986 Nebraska Interactive Videodisc Merit Award from the Nebraska Videodisc Design/Production Group of the Nebraska ETV Network at the University of Nebraska at Lincoln, awarded to the University of Delaware Videodisc Music Series

1985 Alfred Einstein Award from the American Musicological Society, for article "The Introduction of Psalmody into the Roman Mass by Pope Celestine I (422-432): Reinterpreting a Passage in the Liber Pontificalis," Archiv für Liturgiewissenschaft 26 (1984) 147-65.

1984 Travel to Collections Grant from National Endowment for the Humanities, for work in the Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris

1982-3 Andrew W. Mellon Faculty Fellowship in the Humanities, Harvard University

1979 Gladys Krieble Delmas Fellowship for Research in Venice, to pursue research for my dissertation in the archives and libraries of Venice, Italy

1975-80 Princeton University fellowship for graduate study

1975 Lado Award from Lado, Inc., for graduate study

1971-5 New York State Regents Scholarship, undergraduate study

Education

B.A. cum laude, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, 1975

Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of Music and the Arts, New York City, 1971