Joint Faculty Appointments
Joint faculty members are based on one campus with teaching responsibilities on multiple campuses.
More than 80 Jointly Appointed Faculty -- in at least 33 different fields -- have served in visiting, three-year, or tenure track appointments since 1948. Five College Jointly Appointed Faculty are recognized for their work in supporting collaborative academic programs across the campuses and supporting the five institutions in the maintenance and development of their curricula. The commitment of Five College Joint Faculty to working cooperatively across the campuses strengthens the intellectual communities and curricula at their home campuses and throughout the consortium.
Joint appointees are based at a single campus, which is the position’s home campus, and many teach at one or more other campuses on a rotating basis. The procedures of the position's home campus and department govern the review and promotion process, with input from the other campuses sharing in the position. Joint appointments are generally tenure track or continuing. Tenure rates for those appointed to joint tenure-track positions compare very favorably with the tenure rates for those appointed to tenure-track positions based fully at a single campus.
Faculty members holding joint appointments have enriched scholarship and creative work and teaching at the member campuses for more than 70 years. Among those who have served as Jointly Appointed Professors are James Baldwin, Joseph Brodsky, and Pearl Primus. Please see below for a list of current Jointly Appointed Faculty, with areas of expertise across a wide variety of academic fields.
Joint Appointments 2025-26
Anthropology
Felicity Aulino, Five College Associate Professor of Anthropology
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Hampshire College – NS 0223: Medical Anthropology
UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 312: Medical Anthropology
Spring 2026
To be announced
Arabic
Ahmad Alswaid, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Amherst College – ARAB 301: Third-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 401: Media Arabic
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 130: First Year Arabic I
Spring 2026
To be announced
May George, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Smith College – ARA 100: Elementary Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 200: Intermediate Arabic I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Nahla Khalil, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
UMass Amherst – LLC 126: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I
UMass Amherst – LLC 226: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic I
UMass Amherst – LLC 326: Four-Skilled 3rd-Year Arabic I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Mohamed Hassan, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Amherst College – ARAB 101: First-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 201: Second-Year Arabic I
Spring 2026
To be announced
John Weinert, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Smith College – ARA 100: Elementary Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 300: Advanced Arabic I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Arts
John Slepian, Five College Associate Professor of Art and Technology
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Smith College – ARS 162: Intro to Digital Media
Spring 2026
To be announced
American Sign Language (ASL)
Dana Hoover, Five College Lecturer
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
UMass Amherst – SLHS 110-01/02/05: American Sign Language I
UMass Amherst – SLHS 110-03/04/06: American Sign Language I
UMass Amherst – SLHS 230: American Sign Language III
Five College Center for World Languages – FORLANGC 151AS: Advanced ASL A
Spring 2026
To be announced
Astronomy
Eliot Vrijmoet, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
On leave for the fall semester
Spring 2026
To be announced
Classics
Hans Hansen, Five College Lecturer in Classics
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Amherst College – LATI 111: An Introduction to Latin Language and Literature
Amherst College – LATI 215: Latin Literature: Catullus and the Lyric Spirit
Amherst College – GRK 215: Greek Prose and Poetry of the Classical Age
Spring 2026
To be announced
Dance
Neri Torres, Joint Lecturer in Dance of Africa and the African Diaspora
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Amherst College – THDA 126H: Dance Technique: Afro-Cuban Dance
Amherst College – THDA 255: Dance: A Global Movement
Smith College – DAN 245: Intermediate Afro-Modern
Smith College – DAN 309: Advanced Repertory
Spring 2026
To be announced
Early Music
Allison Monroe, Director of the Five College Early Music Program
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 143H: Early Music Chamber Ensemble
Smith College – MUS 962: Five College Collegium
Spring 2026
To be announced
Education
Sarah Frenette, Director of Five College Undergraduate Teacher Licensure Programs
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 267: Children's Literature
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 263: Teaching English Language Learners (co-teaching with Jennifer Jacoby)
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 320: Observing and Assisting in Inclusive Classrooms
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 324: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings
Spring 2026
To be announced
Hebrew
Joanna Caravita, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Smith College – JUD 101: Elementary Modern Hebrew I
UMass Amherst – HEBREW 110: Elementary Modern Hebrew I
UMass Amherst – HEBREW 230: Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
Spring 2026
To be announced
History
Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Hampshire College – CSI 0224: Empire, Race, & the Philippines
UMass Amherst – FFYS 191 / HISTORY 15: Chinese American History/Films
UMass Amherst – HISTORY 253: Asian-Pacific American History: 1850-Present
UMass Amherst – HONORS 391AH: Honors Discovery Seminars
Spring 2026
To be announced
Korean
Suk Massey, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Smith College – KOR 101-01: Korean I
Smith College – KOR 101-02: Korean I
Smith College – KOR 201: Korean II
Spring 2026
To be announced
Chan Young Park, Five College Senior Lecturer of Korean
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115-03: Beginning Korean I
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115-04: Beginning Korean I
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 235: Intermediate Korean I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Kyae-Sung Park, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 160-01: Beginning Korean I
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 160-02: Beginning Korean I
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 262: Intermediate Korean I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Music
Evan MacCarthy, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 101: Literature of Music
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 690E: Elemental Thinking
Spring 2026
To be announced
Bode Omojola, Hammond-Douglass Five College Professor of Music
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 226: World Music
Smith College – MUS 220pb: Topics in World Music - The Power of Black Music
Spring 2026
To be announced
Physics
David Hamilton, Five College Lecturer of Physics
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 121: Einstein's Dice
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151: General Physics I
Spring 2026
To be announced
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)
Daniel Brooks, Five College Visiting Lecturer in Russian
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – RES 201: Intermediate Russian
Mount Holyoke College – RES 211MM: Topics in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: 'Diabolic Carnival: Bulgakov's Master and Margarita and Its Contexts'
Mount Holyoke College – RES 231FA: Anna Karenina and Contexts: 'Tolstoy on Love, Death, and Family Life'
Spring 2026
To be announced
Sergey Glebov, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Amherst College – HIST 423: The Cold War (co-teaching with Vanessa Walker)
Smith College – FYS 154: The World of Anna Karenina
Spring 2026
To be announced
Sustainable Architecture
Naomi Darling, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
On sabbatical
Spring 2026
On sabbatical
Women’s Studies
Angie Willey, Five College Associate Professor of Feminist Science Studies
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2025
Mount Holyoke College – GNDST 204CM: Critical Relationality
Mount Holyoke College – GNDST 333ER: Theorizing Eros
Spring 2026
To be announced