| ED-22363-02 | Education Programs: Education Development and Demonstration | New Mexico State University | Understanding Islam: Infusing Islamic Studies into the undergraduate Humanities Curriculum | 1/1/2003 - 6/30/2005 | $24,944.00 | Margaret | Irene | Malamud | | | | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces | NM | 88003-8002 | USA | 2002 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Education Development and Demonstration | Education Programs | 24944 | 0 | 24944 | 0 | A series of faculty and curriculum development workshops led by distinguished scholars of Islamic Studies. |
| FB-35709-99 | Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Margaret Irene Malamud | America's Romes: The Legacy of Ancient Rome in American Popular Culture | 1/1/1999 - 12/31/1999 | $30,000.00 | Margaret | Irene | Malamud | | | | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces | NM | 88003-8002 | USA | 1999 | Classics | Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars | Research Programs | 30000 | 0 | 29716.54 | 0 | No project description available |
| HR-50032-04 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Margaret Irene Malamud | The Uses and the Abuses of Roman Antiquity in American Culture | 6/1/2005 - 5/31/2006 | $40,000.00 | Margaret | Irene | Malamud | | | | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces | NM | 88003-8002 | USA | 2003 | Classics | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 40000 | 0 | 40000 | 0 |
My proposed book investigates the utility and mutability of images of classical Rome for American attitudes and culture from the revolutionary era to the present; in it I will analyze how the legacy of Rome has been rediscovered and appropriated by diverse groups through different eras in American history. Most studies of the reception of Rome in American culture have focused on its uses in the domain of political theory and "high" culture, but my work analyzes how and why references to classical Rome have taken popular and commercial shape. The key questions I address are: when, how, and by whom have the cultural resonances of Roman antiquity been manipulated and exploited? What images of classical Rome they used and for what purpose? I am particularly interested in the ways in which representations of Rome have responded to a diversity of voices in the construction of America's metaphorical relationship to Rome and indeed for articulating and questioning America's own political and cultural identities. |
| HR-50534-10 | Research Programs: Faculty Research Awards | Margaret Irene Malamud | Black Minerva: African Americans and the Classics | 7/1/2011 - 6/30/2013 | $50,400.00 | Margaret | Irene | Malamud | | | | New Mexico State University | Las Cruces | NM | 88003-8002 | USA | 2009 | History, General | Faculty Research Awards | Research Programs | 50400 | 0 | 50400 | 0 |
With a twelve-month grant from the NEH, I will complete the research for and produce a draft of Black Minerva: African Americans and Classical Culture, a book that will explore how African Americans mobilized knowledge of classical texts and antiquity in their fight for liberty and equality. Throughout the 19th century African Americans legitimated and contested their political and cultural identities through selective references to the civilizations of the ancient Mediterranean. References to antiquity were abundant but not stable: their meanings shifted in accordance with the ideological and political concerns of their producers. African Americans appropriated classic--most especially, for debates, explicit and implicit, about politics and culture. |