Yale Professor Paul Freedman specializes in the history of cuisine. Before joining the Yale faculty, he taught for eighteen years at Vanderbilt University where he was the Robert Penn Warren Humanities Center Fellow and was awarded Vanderbilt’s Nordhaus Teaching Prize. Since coming to Yale, Professor Freedman has served as Director of Undergraduate Studies in History, Director of the Medieval Studies Program, Chair of the History Department, and Chair of the Program in the History of Science and Medicine.