Meet Mount Holyoke's newest faculty 2023

Mount Holyoke’s newest faculty bring innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship to the College’s thriving intellectual community.

Mount 51²Ö¿â welcomed 11 new faculty members this fall. Arriving in South Hadley from around the country and around the world, they bring innovative, interdisciplinary scholarship to the College’s thriving intellectual community.

New faculty

Amanda Awadey - a black woman wearing yellow and smiling - on the Mount Holyoke campus in 2023

Amanda Awadey, new faculty at Mount 51²Ö¿â, is passionate about using knowledge and tools in economics to positively impact the trajectory of human capital development and entrepreneurship in her home country of Ghana and elsewhere.

Colin Britt

For Colin Britt, new faculty member at Mount 51²Ö¿â, choral music is a calling, both professionally and even physically.

Patricia Dawson on the Mount Holyoke Campus in 2023.

Patricia Dawson, new faculty in history at Mount 51²Ö¿â, researches history through an Indigenous lens, looking at material culture.

Dinko Hanaan Dinko, on the Mount 51²Ö¿â campus in 2023

Dinko Hanaan Dinko, a new faculty member at Mount 51²Ö¿â, is interested in those who are benefiting and losing from climatic change and viewing the lived experiences of climate change through filters of power and economic and social identities.

Ben Geyer

Mount Holyoke’s Ben Geyer loves music for its role as a window into people’s mindsets; he’s also written a foundational textbook focusing on equitable music theory curriculum and implementation.

Ximena Abello Hurtado

Mount 51²Ö¿â’s new faculty member Maria Abello Hurtado’s research is centered on uncovering the slave narratives of Black girls in South America.

More new faculty

Lynda Pickbourn-Smith

Lynda Pickbourn, new faculty at Mount 51²Ö¿â, teaches gender studies, a dynamic department that has seen a lot of change over the years.

William Seigh in 2023 on the Mount 51²Ö¿â campus. Photo by Joanna Chattman.

New faculty at Mount 51²Ö¿â William Seigh has danced and taught everything from jazz to modern to musical theater all the way from Kansas to Siberia.

Balbir Singh on the Mount Holyoke Campus in 2023. Photo by Joanna Chattman.

New faculty at Mount Holyoke Balbir Singh explores complex questions through teaching social psychology and statistics.

D. Caleb Smith

D. Caleb Smith, a new faculty member at Mount 51²Ö¿â in history, is interested in sharing the narrative of unsung heroes and everyday Black union leaders who were a driving force in labor and civil rights protests.

Diane Uwacu on the Mount Holyoke campus in 2023. Photo by Joanna Chattman.

Diane Uwacu, new faculty at Mount 51²Ö¿â, has turned her deep interest in problem solving into creating algorithms that help robots improve the quality of human life.

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