Faculty Research Awards
Faculty Research Awards support six to twelve months of advanced humanities research undertaken by individuals who teach at Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Institutions with High Hispanic Enrollment, or Tribal Colleges and Universities.
Guidelines URL:
www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/facultyresearch.html

HR-50032, Margaret Malamud:
The Uses and the Abuses of Roman Antiquity in American Culture.
Professor Margaret Malamud, associate professor of ancient history and Islamic studies at New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, used her 2004 award to research and write Ancient Rome and Modern America (Wiley-Blackwell, 2009), a study of how images of ancient Rome have played an important role in defining America. From the colonial view that compared Roman tyranny to oppressive British rule, to the mid-twentieth century opulence of Las Vegas’s Caesar’s Palace, Malamud explains how references to Rome and Romans have influenced American life.