Falk is the author of the books Barns of New York: Rural Architecture of the Empire State and Architecture and Artifacts of the Pennsylvania Germans: Constructing Identity in Early America. She contributed to the volumes A Shared Legacy: Folk Art in America and A Peculiar Mixture: German-Language Cultures and Identities in Eighteenth-century North America. Falk serves as the co-editor of Buildings & Landscapes, the journal of the Vernacular Architecture Forum and is an elected Trustee of the Village of Cooperstown. Falk did her undergraduate work at Penn State University, earned a MA in the Winterthur Program in Early American Culture, and completed her PhD in American Civilization at the University of Delaware. [RETURN to Agenda]