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 2024-25
Anthropology
Felicity Aulino, Five College Associate Professor of Anthropology
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 603: Community-Based Research and Practice
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Arabic
Ahmad Alswaid, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Amherst College – ARAB 101: First-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 301: Third-Year Arabic I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
May George, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Smith College – ARA 200: Intermediate Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 300: Advanced Arabic I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Nahla Khalil, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 101: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 201: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Mohamed Hassan, Five College Senior Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Amherst College – ARAB 201: Second-Year Arabic I
Amherst College – ARAB 401: Media Arabic
UMass Amherst – ARABIC 101: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
John Weinert, Five College Lecturer in Arabic
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 130: First Year Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I
Smith College – ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Arts
Vick Quezada, Five College Assistant Professor of Studio Arts, Creative Arts, and Visual Culture
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Hampshire College – HACU 0256: Art Barn Studio Colloquium
Hampshire College – HACU 0258: Movement and Forms
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
John Slepian, Five College Associate Professor of Art and Technology
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Smith College – ARS 263: Video & Time-Based Digital Media
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
American Sign Language (ASL)
Dana Hoover, Five College Lecturer
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – SLHS 110: American Sign Language II
UMass Amherst – SLHS 230: American Sign Language III
Five College Center for World Languages – FORLANGC 151AS: Advanced ASL B
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Astronomy
Eliot Vrijmoet, Five College Astronomy Department Education and Research Postdoctoral Fellow
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Smith College – AST 337: Observational Techniques in Optical and Infrared Astronomy
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Classics
Hans Hansen, Five College Lecturer in Classics
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Amherst College – CLAS 219: Posthumanist Perspective
Amherst College – GREE 111: Introduction to the Greek Language
Smith College – GRK 215: Greek Prose and Poetry of the Classical Age
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Dance
Neri Torres, Joint Lecturer in Dance of Africa and the African Diaspora
Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Amherst College – Afro-Cuban Technique
Amherst College – Dance History
UMass Amherst – Afro-Cuban Technique
UMass Amherst – Repertory Project
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Early Music
Allison Monroe, Director of the Five College Early Music Program
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 143H: Early Music Chamber Ensemble
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Education
Sarah Frenette, Five College Teacher Licensure Coordinator
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 320: Observing and Assisting in Inclusive Classrooms
Mount Holyoke College – EDUC 324: Observing and Assisting in Early Childhood and Elementary Settings
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Hebrew
Joanna Caravita, Five College Lecturer in Modern Hebrew Language
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
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 2025
To Be Announced
History
Richard Chu, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Smith College – AMS 230cc: Colloquium: Topics on the Asian American Experience - Chinese Diasporic Communities in the U.S. and the World
UMass Amherst – FFYS 191 / HISTORY 16: Learning Philippine & Filipino
UMass Amherst – HISTORY 247: Empire, Race, and the Philippines
UMass Amherst – HONORS 391AH: Honors Discovery Seminars
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Korean
Suk Massey, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Smith College – KOR 101-01: Korean I
Smith College - KOR 101-02: Korean I
Smith College – KOR 301: Korean III
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Chan Young Park, Five College Senior Lecturer of Korean
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115-03: Beginning Korean I
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 115-04: Beginning Korean I
UMass Amherst – KOREAN 235: Intermediate Korean I
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Kyae-Sung Park, Five College Senior Lecturer in Korean
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
On Leave During the Fall 2024 Semester
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Music
Evan MacCarthy, Five College Visiting Assistant Professor of Music History
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 101: Literature of Music
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 690C: Topics in Musical Culture
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Bode Omojola, Hammond-Douglass Five College Professor of Music
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 226: World Music
UMass Amherst – MUSIC 106: World Music
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Native American and Indigenous Studies
Noah Romero, Five College Assistant Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies
Home Campus – Hampshire College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Hampshire College – CSI 0110: Indigenous Liberation
Amherst College – Indigenous and Decolonizing Education
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Physics
David Hamilton, Five College Lecturer of Physics
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151-01: General Physics I
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 151-02: General Physics I
UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 185: Freshman Colloquium
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies (REEES)
Daniel Brooks, Five College Visiting Lecturer in Russian
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – RES 101: Elementary Russian
Mount Holyoke College – RES 201: Intermediate Russian
Mount Holyoke College – RES 211CA: Topics in Twentieth-Century Russian Literature: 'Russophone Worlds of Siberia and Central Asia'
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Sergey Glebov, Five College Professor of History
Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
On Sabbatical
Spring 2025
On Sabbatical
Sustainable Architecture
Naomi Darling, Five College Associate Professor of Architecture
Home Campus – Mount Holyoke College – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 225ED: Intermediate Studies in Architecture: 'Environmental Principles'
Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 311MK: Makerspace Design-Build Studio
Spring 2025
To Be Announced
Women’s Studies
Angie Willey, Five College Associate Professor of Feminist Science Studies
Home Campus – UMass Amherst – Faculty Profile
Fall 2024
On Sabbatical
Spring 2025
On Sabbatical