Joint Faculty Appointments

Joint faculty members are based on one campus with teaching responsibilities on multiple campuses.

More than 150 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. 

Watch this three-minute video exploring the value to the Five College campuses of jointly appointed faculty and staff members working at multiple institutions. 

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 2026-27

    Anthropology

    Felicity Aulino, Five College Associate Professor of Anthropology 

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Mount Holyoke College – ANTHR 216CM/PSYCH 229CM: Culture and Mental Health

    UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 290P: Psychological Anthropology

    Spring 2027

    To be announced 

    Arts

    John Slepian, Five College Associate Professor of Art and Technology

    Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile 

    Fall 2026

    Smith College – ARS 385: Senior Studio I  

    Spring 2027

    To be announced 

    American Sign Language (ASL)

    Dana Hoover, Five College Lecturer 

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    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 2027

    To be announced 

    Astronomy

    Eliot Vrijmoet, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow

    Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Smith College – AST 337: Observational Techniques in Optical and Infrared Astronomy

    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 2026

    Amherst College – THDA 126H: Dance Technique: Afro-Cuban Dance, Music, and Culture

    Amherst College – THDA 218: Contemporary Dance Technique and Repertory

    Smith College – DAN 142bc: Beginning AfroCuban

    Spring 2027

    To be announced  

    Early Music

    Allison Monroe, Director of the Five College Early Music Program

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 143H: Early Music Chamber Ensembles

    Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 151V: Individual Performance Study: 'Recorders/Early Winds'

    Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 151W: Individual Performance Study: 'Loud Winds'

    Spring 2027

    To be announced 

    Education

    Sarah Frenette, Director of Five College Undergraduate Teacher Licensure Programs 

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 263: Teaching English Learners (co-teaching with Jennifer Jacoby)

    Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 324: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings

    Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 330: The Process of Teaching and Learning in Secondary and Middle Schools

    Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 332: Observing and Assisting in Secondary and Middle School Educational Programs

    Spring 2027

    To be announced  

    Hebrew

    Joanna Caravita, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language

    Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    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 2027

    To be announced 

    History

    Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History 

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    UMass Amherst – FFYS 191 / HIST1: Chinese American History/Film

    UMass Amherst – HISTORY 245: Chinese Diasporic Comm/US & World

    UMass Amherst – HONORS 391AH: Honors Discovery Seminars

    Smith College – Course details forthcoming

    Spring 2027

    To be announced

    Korean

     

    Chan Young Park, Five College Senior Lecturer of Korean

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115: Beginning Korean I

    UMass Amherst – KOREAN 235-01: Intermediate Korean I

    UMass Amherst – KOREAN 235-02: Intermediate Korean I

    UMass Amherst – KOREAN 491S: S-Adv Korean/Premodern History

    Spring 2027

    To be announced 

    Kyae-Sung Park, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    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 2027

    To be announced 

    Music

    Evan MacCarthy, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    UMass Amherst – MUSIC 350: Writing about Music

    UMass Amherst – MUSIC 499Y: Honors Research

    UMass Amherst – MUSIC 690N: Art Song

    Spring 2027

    To be announced 

    Bode Omojola, Hammond-Douglass Five College Professor of Music 

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 238: The Power of Black Music

    UMass Amherst – MUSIC 108: The Power of Black Music

    Spring 2027

    To be announced  

    Physics

    David Hamilton, Five College Lecturer of Physics 

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    UMass Amherst – PHYSICS-121: Einstein's Dice

    UMass Amherst – PHYSICS-151: General Physics I

    Spring 2027

    To be announced  

    Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)

    Sergey Glebov, Five College Professor of History

    Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Amherst College – EUST 238/HIST 236/RUSS 237: USSR During the Cold War

    Smith College – HIST 240: Colloquium: Stalin and Stalinism

    Spring 2027

    To be announced   

    Sustainable Architecture

    Naomi Darling, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 225ED: Intermediate Studies in Architecture: 'Environmental Principles'

    UMass Amherst – ARCH 403: Design V Studio

    Spring 2027

    To be announced

    Women’s Studies

    Angie Willey, Five College Associate Professor of Feminist Science Studies

    Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2026

    UMass Amherst – WGSS 250: Intro/Sexuality & Trans Studies

    UMass Amherst – WGSS 695E: Seminar - Theorizing Eros

    Spring 2027

    To be announced