From his arrival in Sydney, Russian ethnographer and biologist, Nikolai Miklouho-Macleay, was supported by Sir William Macleay because of their shared investment in the natural sciences. Established in 1988 with funds raised by the Museum and the Miklouho-Maclay Society, this $12,000 fellowship supports research based with the Macleay Collections, in a field of interest of Sir William Macleay or Nikolai Miklouho-Maclay.
Your application must include the following:听
Please email your documents to Jude Philp, Senior Curator, Macleay Collections -听 jude.philp@sydney.edu.au. Applications close 30 March 2026. Applicants will be contacted in June on the status of their proposal.听
If you have any questions, or would like to discuss your proposal, please contact Jude Philp.
The fellowship is awarded under the following conditions (approved by the Academic Board on 24 April 1989):
Fellows are appointed by the Academic Board on the recommendation of a committee consisting of:
The period of, and emolument for, each fellowship shall be determined by the selection committee on the basis of available funds.
Funding is available up to $12,000 to support research based with the Macleay Collections full time for a minimum of three months or part-time equivalent.
The Macleay Miklouho-Maclay Fellowship began in 1988. Successful applicants are listed below along with their research topics and publication where it is related to the Fellowship. Some Fellow鈥檚 work was published online within our collections database.听
1989 Lois Tilbrook:听Compilation of collectors and their handwriting
1992 Daniel Tumarkin:听Compilation of information on Miklouho-Maclay in Australia
1993 Clemency Fisher:听Partial catalogue of Macleay vertebrate collections
1995 Shane Ahyong:听Identification and catalogue of decapod crustacea in the Macleay Museum
1997 Graham Fulton:听Review Macleay bird collections (skins, nests, eggs, skeletons)
1999 Stephen Wroe:听Analysis of trophic diversity among marsupial carnivores in Australia.
2000 Mike Letnik:听Pre-European trade that stretched across the nation.
2001 (relinquished) Jude Philp:听The role of natural history in the British and Australian expansion into Torres Strait and PNG
2002 Kirk Huffman:听Ni-Vanuatu collections in the Macleay, update catalogues and communicate results to National Cultural Centre, Vanuatu.
2006 Susie Davies:听Miklouho-Maclay鈥檚 and WJ Macleay鈥檚 ethnographic collections
2009 Dominic Cross:听The taxonomic and Historical Biography of the Insect Collections of the Macleay Museum, pertaining to specimens collected by William Sharp Macleay during the years of his diplomatic posting in Cuba from 1825 to 1836.
2010 Michael Shea:听Identification and documentation of the Macleay Museum鈥檚 Australian and Indo-Pacific non-marine mollusc collection as a resource aid for researchers.
2014 Lindsey Gray:听Uncovering the hidden past of the Macleay Museum Kakapo.
2015 Harry Parnaby:听Type specimen inventory: MMUS mammal collection and associated archival documentation.
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