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Oren Falk

Assistant Professor

Office: 323 McGraw Hall
Phone: (607) 255-3311
Fax: (607) 255-0469
E-Mail: of24@cornell.edu

Office Hours: TBA

Education

Ph.D University of Toronto, 2002
M.A. University of Toronto, 1996
B.A. Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 1995

Courses

Fall 2008:
4560
Topics in Medieval Historiography
4601
Towards a Prehistory of Terror
Spring 2009:
On Leave

Recent Publications and Awards

Books

Co-edited book: 'A Great Effusion of Blood'? Interpreting Medieval Violence, ed. with Mark Meyerson and Daniel Thiery (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, forthcoming 2004).

Articles

“Did Rannveig Change her Mind? Resolve and Violence in porsteins pattr stangarhoggs," in New Waves on Old Shores, ed. Trine Buhl and Kari Gislason, 153-72. Forthcoming.

“Bystanders and Hearsayers First: Reassessing Participant Roles in Duelling," in 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?, ed. Meyerson, Thiery and Falk. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 96-128. Forthcoming 2004.

(with Mark Meyerson and Daniel Thiery): "Introduction" and "Conclusion" in 'A Great Effusion of Blood'?, ed. Meyerson, Thiery and Falk. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 3-16, 309-14. Forthcoming 2004.

“The Son of Orfeo: Kingship and Compromise in a Middle English Romance," Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies 30:2 (Spring 2000): 247-74.

Awards

Leonard E. Boyle Dissertation Prize for Medieval Studies, Canadian Society of Medievalists, 2003.

HaNadiv Fellowship in European and Western History, Yad haNadiv, Jerusalem, 2001-2002.

Dissertation Writing Fellowship, University of Toronto, 2000-2001.

Ontario Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1998-2001.

Connaught Scholarship, University of Toronto, 1995-1998.