Yale Environmental Humanities was launched in 2018 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 courses at Yale - including the one featured here. Read an overview and explore other course features.
This wasn't a typical class session in this advanced Latin course. Instead of sitting in a classroom translating ancient texts, students were gathered in the kitchen of Jonathan Edwards College for a hands-on lesson in baking with ancient grains.
Their professor, Kirk Freudenburg, also an experienced baker, had already prepared bread dough from spelt that had been ground in his stone mill. (For fun, and a late lunch, he had also prepared pizza dough and toppings.)
