Paul Freedman

Paul Freedman
Freedman in 2016
Born	Paul Harris Freedman (1949-09-15) September 15, 1949 (age 74) New York City, U.S.
Title	Chester D. Tripp Professor of History
Awards	Haskins Medal Otto Gründler Prize American Academy of Arts & Sciences (2010) Guggenheim Fellowship
Academic background
Education	University of California, Santa Cruz (BA) University of California, Berkeley (MLS, PhD)
Thesis	The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia (1983)
Influences	Peter Kenez
Academic work
Discipline	Medieval studies
Institutions	University of California, Davis Vanderbilt University Institute for Advanced Study Yale University
Main interests	Food history

Paul Harris Freedman (born September 15, 1949) is an American historian and medievalist who serves as the Chester D. Tripp Professor of History at Yale University. Freedman specializes in medieval social history, the history of Catalonia, the study of medieval peasantry, and the history of American cuisine.

Freedman is the author of more than 10 books and 40 academic papers having been published by the universities of Princeton, Yale, Harvard, Cambridge, Toronto, and Bologna, among others. He wrote extensively on the history of the Middle Ages during his career as a historian though he has recently shifted to culinary history.

His 1999 book Images of the Medieval Peasant won the Medieval Academy's Haskins Medal and the Otto Gründler Prize of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University.