She is in the final stages of revising for publication her first book, Performing the Temple of Liberty: Slavery, Theater and Popular Culture in the British Atlantic (1800s to 1850s), which examines the crucial role of transatlantic performative culture—theater, broadsides, ballads, cartoons and related media—in shaping Anglo-American debates about slavery. Gibbs has also given numerous conference presentations and published articles and essays on the transatlantic performance of race, slavery, and rights.