Joint Faculty Appointments

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

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. 

Joint Appointments 2022-23

    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

    Early Music

    Michael Barrett, Interim Director of the Five College Early Music Program

    Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile

    Fall 2022
    Hampshire College - HACC 0147: FC Collegium (Half Course)

    Mount Holyoke College - MUSIC 143H: Early Music Chamber Ensemble

    Mount Holyoke College - MUSIC 147A: Five College Collegium

    Mount Holyoke College - MUSIC 281: History of Western Music I

    Spring 2023
    Mount Holyoke 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