
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 2023-24
Anthropology
Felicity Aulino, Five College Associate Professor of Anthropology
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
On Sabbatical – Fall 2023 and Spring 2024
Arabic
Ahmad Alswaid, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Amherst College – ARAB 201: Second-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 401: Media Arabic
May George, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN-130: First Year Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 200: Intermediate Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 300: Advanced Arabic
Nahla Khalil, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 101: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 201: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic I
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 301: Four-Skilled Third-Year Arabic I
Mohamed Hassan, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Amherst College – ARAB 101: First-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 301: Third-Year Arabic I
John Weinert, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Smith College – ARA 100-01: Elementary Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I
Arts
Vick Quezada, Five College Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Hampshire College – HACU 0140: An Intro to Sculpture
Hampshire College – HACU 0258: Movement and Forms
John Slepian, Five College Associate Professor of Art and Technology
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Hampshire College – IA 0149: Digital Media
Smith College – ARS 263: Video & Time-Based Digital Media
American Sign Language (ASL)
Dana Hoover, Five College Lecturer
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – COMM-DIS 110: American Sign Language I
UMass Amherst – COMM-DIS 230: American Sign Language III
Five College Center for World Languages – FORLANGC 151AS: Advanced ASL A
Astronomy
Eliot Vrijmoet, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Smith College – AST 337: Observational Techniques in Optical and Infrared Astronomy
Biological Sciences; Data and Statistical Sciences
Justin Baumann, Five College Visiting Lecturer
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – BIOL 145MB: Marine Organismal Biology
Mount Holyoke College – BIOL 321MR: Marine Invertebrate Physiology
Early Music
Allison Monroe, Director of the Five College Early Music Program
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 147A: Early Music: Five College Collegium
Education
Sarah Frenette, Five College Teacher Licensure Coordinator
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College (w/ Jennifer Jacoby) – EDUC 263: Teaching English Language Learners
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 324: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings
Hebrew
Joanna Caravita, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Smith College – JUD 101: Elementary Modern Hebrew I
UMass Amherst – HEBREW 110: Elementary Modern Hebrew I
UMass Amherst – HEBREW 230: Intermediate Modern Hebrew I
History
Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – HIST 239CD: Chinese Diasporic Communities
UMass Amherst – FIRST YEAR SEMINAR 191 / HISTORY 15: Chinese Amer.: Forgotten History
UMass Amherst – HISTORY 247: Empire, Race, and the Philippines
UMass Amherst – HONORS 391AH: Honors Discovery Seminars
Korean
Suk Massey, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Smith College – KOR 101: Korean I
Smith College – KOR 301: Korean III
Chan Young Park, Five College Senior Lecturer of Korean
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115: Beginning Korean I
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 235: Intermediate Korean I
Kyae-Sung Park, Five College Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 160: First Year Korean I
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 262: Second Year Korean I
Music
Evan MacCarthy, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 100: Music Appreciation-Intro
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 301: History of Music 1700-1900
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 647: Age of Bach & Handel
Bode Omojola, Hammond-Douglass Five College Professor of Music
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Hampshire College – HACU 0221: The Power of Black Music
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 226: World Music
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Noah Romero, Five College Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Hampshire College – CSI 0143: Indigenous and Decolonizing Education
Hampshire College – CSI 0205: Decolonial Undergrounds
Physics
David Hamilton, Five College Lecturer of Physics
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151: General Physics I
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151: General Physics I
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)
Daniel Brooks, Five College Visiting Lecturer in Russian
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – RES 101: Elementary Russian
Mount Holyoke College – RES 201: Intermediate Russian
Mount Holyoke College – RES 235: Strange World of Nikolai Gogol
Sergey Glebov, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Amherst College – EUST 245/HIST 235/RUSS 235: Stalin and Stalinism
Sustainable Architecture
Naomi Darling, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 225ED: Intermediate Studies in Architecture: 'Environmental Principles'
Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 311: Design-Build Studio: 'Foldable Structures'
Women’s Studies
Angie Willey, Five College Associate Professor of Feminist Science Studies
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2023
UMass Amherst – WGSS 695E: Seminar: Theorizing Eros