Joint Faculty Appointments

More than 80 Joint Appointed Faculty -- in at least 33 different fields -- have served in visiting, three-year, or tenure track appointments since 1948. Five College Joint 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 Joint Appointed Professors are James Baldwin, Joseph Brodsky, and Pearl Primus. Please see below for a list of current Joint Appointed Faculty, with areas of expertise across a wide variety of academic fields. 

Anthropology

Felicity Aulino, Five College Associate Professor of Anthropology 

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Hampshire College – NS 0239: CARE: Doing, Knowing, Being

UMass Amherst – ANTRHO 497DK / 697DK: ST-CARE: Doing Knowing, Being

UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 696-03: Independent Study

UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 696C-01: Independent Study – Colloquium Planning

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College
UMass Amherst

Arabic

Ahmad Alswaid, Five College Lecturer in Arabic

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - ARAB 201: Second-Year Arabic I

Amherst College - ARAB 301: Third-Year Arabic I

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 130-01: First Year Arabic I

Spring 2023
Amherst College - ARAB 202: Second-Year Arabic II
Amherst College – ARAB 302: Third-Year Arabic II

May George, Five College Lecturer in Arabic

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Smith College - ARA 200-01: Intermediate Arabic I

Smith College - ARA 402-01: Fourth Year Arabic

Spring 2023
Amherst College
Smith College

Nahla Khalil, Five College Lecturer in Arabic

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - ARABIC 101-01: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I

UMass Amherst - ARABIC 201-01: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic I

UMass Amherst - ARABIC 398-01: Practicum

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Mohamed Hassan, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - ARAB 101: First-Year Arabic I

Spring 2023
Amherst College

John Weinert, Five College Lecturer in Arabic 

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Smith College - ARA 100-01: Elementary Arabic I

Smith College - ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I

Smith College - ARA 300-01: Advanced Arabic I

Spring 2023
Smith College

Art and Technology

John Slepian, Five College Associate Professor of Art and Technology

Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile 

Fall 2022
Hampshire College - IA 0149: Digital Art

Smith College – ARS 385-01: Senior Studio I

Spring 2023
Hampshire College
Smith College

American Sign Language (ASL)

Dana Hoover, Five College Lecturer 

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - COMM-DIS 110-01/02/05: American Sign Language I

UMass Amherst - COMM-DIS 110-03/04/06: American Sign Language I

UMass Amherst - COMM-DIS 290B-01/02: American Sign Language III

Five College Center for World Languages - FORLANGC 197SF-01: Advanced ASL A

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Astronomy

Connor Robinson, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - ASTR 337: Observational Techniques

Spring 2023
Amherst College

Education

Sarah Frenette, Five College Teacher Licensure Coordinator

Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Mount Holyoke College - EDUC 295-01: Independent Study

Mount Holyoke College - EDUC 320-01: Observing and Assisting in Inclusive Classrooms

Mount Holyoke College - EDUC 324-01: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College

Geosciences

Stephen Turner, Five College Lecturer 

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - GEO-SCI 821-01: Petrology Seminar

UMass Amherst - GEOLOGY 311-01: Materials and their Environments

UMass Amherst - GEOLOGY H311-01: Mineralogy (Honors Colloquium)

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Hebrew

Joanna Caravita, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
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 2023
Smith College
UMass Amherst

History

Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History 

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - AMST 114/ASLC 114/HIST 114: Chinese Diaspora History

UMass Amherst - FFYS 191/HIST15: Chinese American History

UMass Amherst - HISTORY 253H: Asian-Pacific American History Honors

Spring 2023
Smith College
UMass Amherst

Japanese

Fumiko Brown, Five College Senior Lecturer in Japanese 

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

On Leave Fall 2022 and Spring 2023

Kentaro Fukube, Five College Lecturer in Japanese 

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College – JAP 301: Introduction to Different Genres of Japanese Writing and Film

Amherst College – JAP 302: Moving from "Learning to Read" to "Reading to Learn" in Japanese

Amherst College – JAP 401: Introduction to Thematic Reading and Writing

Spring 2023
Amherst College

Korean

Suk Massey, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Smith College - KOR 101-02: Korean I

Smith College - KOR 101-03: Korean I

Smith College - KOR 301-01: Korean III

Spring 2023
Smith College

Chan Young Park, Five College Senior Lecturer of Korean

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - KOREAN 115-01: Beginning Korean I

UMass Amherst - KOREAN 115-02: Beginning Korean I

UMass Amherst - KOREAN 115-03: Beginning Korean I

UMass Amherst - KOREAN 235-01: Intermediate Korean I

UMass Amherst - KOREAN 498P-01: Korean Practicum and Tutorial

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Kyae-Sung Park, Five College Lecturer in Korean

Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Mount Holyoke College - ASIAN 160-01: First Year Korean I

Mount Holyoke College - ASIAN 160-02: First Year Korean I

Mount Holyoke College - ASIAN 262-01: Second Year Korean I

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College

Music

Evan MacCarthy, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - MUSIC 100-01: Music Appreciation-Intro

UMass Amherst - MUSIC 350-01: Writing About Music

UMass Amherst - MUSIC 690N-01: Art Song

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Bode Omojola, Five College Professor of Music 

Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - BLST 204/MUSI 105: African Popular Music

Mount Holyoke College - MUSIC 226-01: World Music

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College
UMass Amherst

Physics

David Hamilton, Five College Lecturer of Physics 

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
UMass Amherst - PHYSICS 151-01: General Physics I

UMass Amherst - PHYSICS 151-02: General Physics I

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst

Psychology

Karin Chellew, Five College Visiting Associate Professor in Psychology and Education

Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022

Mount Holyoke College - PSYCH 229PD-01: Topics in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: 'Personality and Individual Differences'

Mount Holyoke College - PSYCH 229PD-02: Topics in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: 'Personality and Individual Differences'

Mount Holyoke College - PSYCH 329SN-01: Seminar in Personality and Abnormal Psychology: 'Stress and Neuroticism'

Mount Holyoke College - PSYCH 395-06: Independent Study

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College

Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)

Daniel Brooks, Five College Visiting Lecturer in Russian

Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Mount Holyoke College - RES 101: Elementary Russian

Mount Holyoke College - RES 201: Intermediate Russian

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College
Smith College

Sergey Glebov, Five College Associate Professor in History

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Amherst College - EUST 240/HIST 240/RUSS 240: Last Russian Revolution

Spring 2023
Amherst College
Smith College

Sustainable Architecture

Naomi Darling, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture

Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Mount Holyoke College - ARCH 225ED-01: Intermediate Studies in Architecture: 'Environmental Principles'

Mount Holyoke College - ARCH 395-01: Independent Study

UMass Amherst - ARCH 403-02: Design V Studio

Spring 2023
Mount Holyoke College

Women’s Studies

Angie Willey, Five College Associate Professor of Feminist Science Studies

Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile

Fall 2022
Mount Holyoke College - CST 349ER-01/GNDST 333ER-01: Theorizing Eros

UMass Amherst - WGSS 296-09: Independent Study

UMass Amherst - WGSS 391V-01: Problem of Sexual Violence

UMass Amherst - WGSS 396-09: Independent Study

Spring 2023
UMass Amherst