Joint Faculty Appointments

More than 80 Jointly Appointed Faculty -- in at least 33 different fields -- have served in visiting, three-year, or tenure track appointments since 1948. Five College Jointly 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 Jointly Appointed Professors are James Baldwin, Joseph Brodsky, and Pearl Primus. Please see below for a list of current Jointly 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 2024

UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 603: Community-Based Research and Practice

Spring 2025

Amherst College – ANTH 236: Approaching Death

UMass Amherst – ANTHRO 209: Approaching Death

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

Amherst College – ARAB 102: First-Year Arabic II

Amherst College – ARAB 302: Third-Year Arabic II

UMass Amherst – LLC 146: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic II

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

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 131: First Year Arabic II

Smith College – ARA 101: Elementary Arabic II

Smith College – ARA 201: Intermediate Arabic II

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

UMass Amherst – LLC 146: Elementary Four-Skilled Arabic II

UMass Amherst – LLC 246: Intermediate Four-Skilled Arabic II

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

Amherst College – ARAB 202: Second-Year Arabic II

Amherst College – ARAB 402: Fourth-Year Arabic II

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 100-01: Elementary Arabic I

Smith College – ARA 100-02: Elementary Arabic I

Spring 2025

Smith College – ARA 101: Elementary Arabic II

Smith College – ARA 301: Advanced Arabic II

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

On Leave for Spring 2025 Semester

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

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 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 A

Spring 2025

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 2024

Smith College – AST 337: Observational Techniques in Optical and Infrared Astronomy

Spring 2025

UMass Amherst – ASTRON 390A: Observational Techniques II

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

Smith College – GRK 216: Greek Poetry of Archaic Age

Dance

Neri Torres, Joint Lecturer in Dance of Africa and the African Diaspora

Home Campus – Amherst College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2024

Amherst College – THDA 126H: Dance Technique: Afro-Cuban Dance

Amherst College – THDA 255: Dance and Society

UMass Amherst – DANCE 191C: Afro-Cuban Technique

UMass Amherst – DANCE 391R: Afro-Cuban Repertoire 

Spring 2025

Mount Holyoke College – DANCE 136: Intro to Afro-Cuban

Mount Holyoke College – DANCE 137: Latin Social Dances

Smith College – DAN 142bc: Beginning Afro-Cuban

Smith College – DAN 245: Intermediate Afro-Modern 

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 

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

Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 147A: Five College Collegium

Smith College – MUS 255: Girl Groups Through History

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 578: Collegium Musicum

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

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 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

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 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

Amherst College – AAPI 253 / HIST 253: Asian-Pacific American History: 1850 to Present

UMass Amherst – HISTORY 245: Chinese Diasporic Communities in the US & the World

UMass Amherst – HONORS 391AH: Honors Discovery Seminars

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

Smith College – KOR 102: Korean I

Smith College - KOR 202: Korean II

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

UMass Amherst – KOREAN 125: Beginning Korean II

UMass Amherst – KOREAN 245: Intermediate Korean II

UMass Amherst – KOREAN 491S: Seminar-Advanced Korean/Premodern History

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

Mount Holyoke College – ASIAN 161: 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 2024

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 101: Literature of Music

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 690C: Topics in Musical Culture

Spring 2025

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 100: Music Appreciation - Intro

UMass Amherst – MUSIC 690S: Concept of Late Style in Music

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

Amherst College – BLST 204/MUSI 105: African Popular Music

Mount Holyoke College – MUSIC 238: The Power of Black 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 2024

Hampshire College – CSI 0110: Indigenous Liberation

Amherst College – Indigenous and Decolonizing Education

Spring 2025

Hampshire College – CSI 0145: Indigenous and Decolonizing Pedagogy

Hampshire College – CSI 0221: Indigenous Anarchy

Hampshire College – CSI 0291: Decolonial Undergrounds

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

UMass Amherst – PHYSICS 125: Seeing the Light

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 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

Mount Holyoke College – RES 102: Elementary Russian

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

Mount Holyoke College – RES 332: Advanced Russian

Sergey Glebov, Five College Professor of History

Home Campus – Smith College – Faculty Profile

Fall 2024

On Sabbatical 

Spring 2025

Amherst College – EUST 238/HIST 236/RUSS 237: USSR During the Cold War

Smith College – HST 241-01: Soviet Union in the Cold War

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

Mount Holyoke College – ARCH 205AD: Introduction 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 2024

On Sabbatical

Spring 2025

On Sabbatical