April 13, 2026
“More than five years ago, Yale Environmental Humanities was launched as a platform to highlight and support the emerging interdisciplinary conversation, across departments and schools, about environmental problems and human connections to the natural world.
Today, environmental themes are deeply intertwined with the humanities across a broad range of disciplines at Yale — classics and comparative literature, architecture and American studies, among others.
‘Yale has hired a remarkable group of environmental humanities faculty who have been developing and offering new courses,’ said Paul Sabin, faculty director for Yale Environmental Humanities and the Randolph W. Townsend, Jr. Professor of History in Yale’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences (FAS). ‘This growth in faculty expertise really reflects how scholarly approaches to the humanities and the environment are breaking new conceptual ground in many disciplines.’”