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 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