Margaret Irene Malamud is Professor of Ancient History and Islamic Studies at New Mexico State University.
[1][2] Malamud has received a number of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, most recently for the project Black Minerva: African Americans and the Classics which resulted in her 2019 book African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism.
She has also received grants for projects including Understanding Islam: Infusing Islamic Studies into the undergraduate Humanities Curriculum and The Uses and the Abuses of Roman Antiquity in American Culture, the latter resulting in her 2009 book Ancient Rome and Modern America.
[4][5] Malamud is currently working on the reception of antiquity in the United States, including the 1610 epic poem, Historia de la Nueva México, by Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá, which contains extensive reference to the work of Virgil, Homer, and Lucan.
[6][7] She delivered the Dorothy Tarrant Memorial lecture on 13 May 2019 entitled, Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism in Nineteenth Century American Visual Arts.