Profesör olarak görev yapmaktadır. 1990 yılında University of California Department of History bölümünde doktorasını tamamladı. 2009 yılında da, New Mexico State University Department of History bölümünde Profesör unvanını aldı ve aynı bölümde görevine devam etmektedir. Margaret Malamud Uzakdoğu, Ortadoğu, Afrika, Avrupa ve özellikle de Amerika üzerine inceleme ve araştırmalarda bulunmuş olup bu alanlarda pek çok yayını bulunmaktadır. Zira onun çalışmalarından bazıları şunlardır: Kitaplar; Arguing with the Classics: African Americans and Classical Antiquity, 1770s-1920s, in progress; Ancient Rome and Modern America, Wiley-Blackwell Press, 2009. Reviewed in the Journal of Roman Studies 101 (2011), 307-08; Classical Bulletin 85 (2010), 41-3; Times Higher Education, February 12, 2009; Bryn Mawr Classical Review 2009.07.34; Times Literary Supplement, December 18, 2009; Imperial Projections: Ancient Rome in Modern Popular Culture eds. Sandra R. Joshel, Margaret Malamud and Donald McGuire, Jr., Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001; paperback, 2005. Sample reviews of Imperial Projections: Classical Review 54.1 (2004), 234-37; International History Review XXV.2 (2003), 380-83; Times Literary Supplement, September 13, 2002 and Bryn Mawr Classical Review, July 29, 2002. Makaleler; “Translatio Imperii: America as the New Rome ca 1900,” in Classics & Imperialism in the British Empire, ed. Mark Bradley, Oxford University Press, 2010, 249-83; “Sufi Organizations and Structures of Authority in Medieval Nishapur”, International Journal of Middle East Studies 26 (1994a), 427-442; rpt in Sufism: Critical Concepts in Islamic Studies, ed. Lloyd Ridgeon, Routledge, 2008; “The Politics of Heresy in Medieval Iran”, Journal of Iranian Studies 27 (1994b), 37-51; “The Sufi Practices of Abu Najib al-Suhrawardi”, Bulletin of Islamic Studies 13 (1994c), 6-18; “The Imperial Metropolis: Ancient Rome in Turn-of-the-Century New York City”, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 7.3 (2000a), 64-108; “A Funny Thing Happened on the Way from Brooklyn: Roman Comedy on Broadway and in Film”, Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics 8.3 (2001b), 33-51