Paul Freedman

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Images of the Medieval Peasant (published 1999), won the Medieval Academy's Haskins Medal and the Otto Gründler Prize of the Medieval Institute at Western Michigan University.

Early life and education

Freedman was born in New York City to a Jewish family; his father was a doctor and his mother was an economist. He attended the Walden School, matriculating at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in Merrill College where he studied under Peter Kenez. [1] Freedman also spent time at Barcelona, Spain, and in Indonesia studying the local culture in college before moving on to earn his Doctor of Philosophy at the University of California, Berkeley. Upon earning his doctorate, Freedman taught history briefly for one year at the University of California, Davis.

Academic career

Upon receiving a doctorate in History at Berkeley in 1978, he then taught for 18 years at Vanderbilt University before joining the faculty of Yale University in 1997. [2] Freedman was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton, New Jersey, from 1986 until 1987 [3] and was elected to the American Philosophical Society in 2011. [4] He served as the director of the Robert Penn Warren Center for the Humanities at Vanderbilt University from 1993 to 1997 and was chair of the Department of History at Yale University from 2004 until 2007. Freedman also currently serves as a member on the editorial board of Speculum at the University of Chicago and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences. [5]

Bibliography

  • The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia, 1983
  • The Origins of Peasant Servitude in Medieval Catalonia, 1991
  • Images of the Medieval Peasant, 1999
  • Food: The History of Taste (ed.), 2007
  • Out of the East: Spices and the Medieval Imagination, 2008
  • Ten Restaurants That Changed America, 2016
  • American Cuisine: And How It Got That Way, 2019
  • Why Food Matters, 2021

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References

  1. "Paul Freedman". history.ucsc.edu. Retrieved 2023-01-03.
  2. "Paul Freedman". Yale University. Retrieved 5 January 2019.
  3. "Paul Harris Freedman - Scholars | Institute for Advanced Study". www.ias.edu. 2019-12-09. Retrieved 2022-01-31.
  4. "APS Member History". search.amphilsoc.org. Retrieved 2021-04-02.
  5. "Paul Harris Freedman". American Academy of Arts & Sciences. Retrieved 2022-02-01.
Paul Freedman
Paul Freedman at Square Books, Oxford, Mississippi.jpg
Freedman in 2016
Born
Paul Harris Freedman

(1949-09-15) September 15, 1949 (age 74)
TitleChester D. Tripp Professor of History
Awards
Academic background
Education
Thesis The Diocese of Vic: Tradition and Regeneration in Medieval Catalonia  (1983)
Influences Peter Kenez