The granddaughter of William Malamud. Margaret Malamud is known in par- ticular for her work on classical reception in the United States. 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 2016 book African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism. She has also received grants for projects inclu- ding 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. Malamud's 2016 book African Americans and the Classics: Antiquity, Abolition and Activism has been widely received as a fundamental step in the study of classics in the United States. Malamud's work draws together the evidence for the use of classics and classical education in the fight for the abolition of slavery and the social and economic emancipation of African Americans. Malamud was the Dorothy Tarrant Fellow at the Institute of Classical Studies, London March-June 2019.She de- livered the Dorothy Tarrant Memorial lecture on 13th May 2019 entitled, Antiquity, Abolition, and Activism in Nineteenth Century American Visual Arts.