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

Spring 2024

On Sabbatical

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

Spring 2024

Amherst College – ARAB 202: Second-Year Arabic II

Amherst College – ARAB 402: Fourth-Year Arabic II


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

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN-131: First Year Arabic II 

Smith College – ARA 201: Intermediate Arabic II

Smith College – ARA 301: Advanced Arabic II


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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – ARABIC 102: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic II

UMass Amherst – ARABIC 202: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic II

UMass Amherst – ARABIC 302: Four-Skilled Third-Year Arabic II


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

Spring 2024

Amherst College – ARAB 102: First-Year Arabic II

Amherst College – ARAB 302: Third-Year Arabic II


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

Spring 2024

Smith College – ARA 101-01: Elementary Arabic II

Smith College – ARA 101-02: Elementary Arabic II

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

Spring 2024

Hampshire College – HACU 0140: Material Worlds

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

Spring 2024

Hampshire College – IA 0241: Coding for Artists

Smith College – ARS 361: Interactive Digital Multimedia 

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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – SLHS 120: American Sign Language II

UMass Amherst – SLHS 240: American Sign Language IV

Five College Center for World Languages – FORLANGC 161AS: Advanced ASL B

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

Spring 2024

Smith College – AST 341: Seminar: Observational Techniques II

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

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – SDS 100: Lab: Computing with Data

Mount Holyoke College – SDS 300cr: Seminar: Data Science for Coral Reef Conservation

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

Spring 2024

Hampshire College – HACU 0218: Music in Shakespeare's World

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

Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 147A: 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

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 300: Developing Literacy in Early Childhood and Elementary Schools

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

Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 322: Practicum Seminar on Teaching and Learning: Early Childhood and Elementary Education

Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 323: Student Teaching in Early Childhood and Elementary Schools

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

Spring 2024

Smith College – JUD 102: Elementary Modern Hebrew II

UMass Amherst – HEBREW 240: Intermediate Modern Hebrew II

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

Spring 2024

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

Spring 2024

On Leave in Spring 2024


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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – KOREAN 390STB: Pre-Advanced Korean II

UMass Amherst – KOREAN 490STA: Advanced Korean/Modern History


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

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 161-01/02: First Year Korean II

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 263: Second Year Korean II

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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 100: Music Appreciation-Intro

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 350: Writing about Music


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

Spring 2024

On Leave in Spring 2024

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

Spring 2024

Hampshire College – CSI 0124: Critical Indigenous Studies

Hampshire College – CSI 0145: Indigenous and Decolonizing Pedagogy

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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151: General Physics I

UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 152: General Physics II

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 

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – RES 102: Elementary Russian

Mount Holyoke College – RES 210: Great Books: The Literature of Nineteenth-Century Russia

Smith College – RES 332: Advanced Russian 


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

Spring 2024

Amherst College – HIST 428/RUSS 328: Collapse or Revolution: The End of the Soviet Union

Smith College – HST 241: Soviet Union in the Cold War

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'

Spring 2024

Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 205AD: Intro to Architecture: Design

UMass Amherst – ARCH 404/ARCH 603: Design VI/Graduate Design VI

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

Spring 2024

UMass Amherst – WGSS 291N: Seminar - Critical Relationship Studies

UMass Amherst – WGSS 392FT: Seminar - Feminism, Theory, Technoscience