Frances E. Malamy had deep roots within PEM and the Phillips Library. A long-standing member of the museum family, she dedicated tireless hours processing manuscripts. She was a unique and extraordinary individual who firmly believed that the Phillips Library provides value to the academic community and the public, and realized the importance of the collection and its outreach impact on the greater intellectual world. To sustain the contributions that Frances made to the library, her husband Michael and her two children, Jocelyn and Adam, have funded this fellowship as a lasting tribute to her memory and her interest in the Phillips Library and the world of scholarship.

The Frances E. Malamy Research Fellowship is awarded to one recipient each year to perform independent scholarly research. Fellowships awarded may be taken in the calendar year following an accepted application. The recipient receives a $5,500 award, payable in two equal installments, at the middle and conclusion of their residency.

• Research must be centered in the library’s archives and manuscripts collections.
• The fellowship requires in-library research for a minimum of eight weeks, not to be divided into more than two terms.
• The program culminates in the submission of a research summary for the benefit of the library’s audiences, typically a public lecture or discussion, but the format of this is negotiable. PEM reserves the right to publicize the resulting product in order to promote research within the collection.
• This fellowship is available to U.S. citizens, green card holders and holders of an F1 student visa or a J1 practicum/training visa.

Applications are live by the first week in September and remain open until the last Sunday in October. Application materials must be submitted via PEM's application platform, ClearCompany, by midnight on the last Sunday in October. Please email reference letters as attachments to research@pem.org with "Malamy Fellowship" and the applicant's last name in the subject field. Please ensure your application includes specific references to Phillips Library collection materials as found through Philcat, our online catalog. Applicants will be notified of the committee's decision in December of their application year.

Jennifer Kahn, Malamy 2024
Presentation: coming spring 2025

Ross Nedervelt, Malamy 2023
The Border-seas of a New British Empire: Security, Imperial Reconstitution, and the British Atlantic Islands in the Age of the American Revolution
Presentation: Privateers of the Caribbean: Bermuda and the Bahamas after the American Revolution

Megan Baker, Malamy 2022
Crayon Rebellion: The Material Politics of North American Pastels, 1758–1812
Presentation: Crayon Rebellion

Heesoo Cho, Malamy 2021
Damaged Commodities Afloat: Maritime Ship Management in the Early American Republic, 1783–1820
Presentation: View from the Isle of France: Elias Hasket Derby Jr.’s East India Voyage

Caylin Carbonnell, Malamy 2020
"At Home in My Master's House": Household, Labor, and Authority in Early New England
Presentation: Elizabeth Corwin, Her Book: Uncovering Women’s Accounts from 17th-Century Salem

Yiyun Huang, Malamy 2019
Turning Wuyi Cha to Bohea Tea: The 18th-Century Global Cultural Transfer of Chinese Tea from Qing China to British North America

Kabria Baumgartner, Malamy 2018
A Right To Learn: African American Women and Educational Activism in Antebellum America

Joshua Morrison, Malamy 2018
Cut from the Same Cloth: Salem, Zanzibar, and the Consolidation of the Indo-Atlantic World, 1820–1870

Rachel Silberstein, Malamy 2017
Stitching Culture: American Women and Chinese Textiles in the Twentieth Century

Midori Oka, Malamy 2016
Edward Sylvester Morse: Collecting Art for New England

Maria João Petisca, Malamy 2016
Chinese Black and Gold Export Lacquer, 1600–1850

Nora Riediger, Malamy 2015
Re-Presenting Frank Cousins: Turn-of-the-19th-Century Architecture Photography as a Project of Cultural Remembrance

Anne Plane, Malamy 2015
Frank G. Speck, Ernest S. Dodge, and the Collections of the Peabody Museum of Salem

Jenny Rose, Malamy 2014
Riding the (Revolutionary) Waves Between Two Worlds: Parsi Involvement in the Transition from Old to New

George Schwartz, Malamy 2014
“Collecting and Arranging … a History of the Globe”: A Reconsideration of the Salem East India Marine Society and Antebellum American Museology

Elaine McGrath, Malamy 2010
Hemenway Family Papers (1800–1954) of Augustus and Mary Hemenway: A Story of “Sorrow, Struggle, Success, Collapse [and] Recovery.”