assistant professor

noun

1. a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.

assistant professor

noun

1. a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor

Other Words From

• assistant professorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of assistant professor¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

“You gotta be okay with okay,” David Daum, an assistant professor of kinesiology at San Jose State University in California, said he tells teachers.

From Washington Post

I’m an assistant professor of marketing at the University of Utah.

From Freakonomics

“We’re standing at an inflection point,” said Sam Scarpino, assistant professor at Northeastern University and director of the school’s Emergent Epidemics Lab.

From ProPublica

I asked Jeni Stolow, a social behavioral scientist and assistant professor in the Temple University College of Public Health, why things feel worse to me now than earlier in the pandemic.

From Washington Post

The theory also matches other puzzling observations, according to Lujendra Ojha, a planetary scientist who helped discover RSL as an undergraduate and is now an assistant professor at Rutgers University.

From Popular-Science

Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

From The Daily Beast

Do you know Richard Bargis, assistant professor of philosophy at your alma mater?

From The Daily Beast

Brian E. McGeeney, MD, MPH, is a neurologist and Assistant Professor of Neurology at Boston University School of Medicine.

From The Daily Beast

Gregory Weiner, assistant professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.

From The Daily Beast

“It was exhilarating,” says the University of Wisconsin assistant professor of arts education.

From The Daily Beast

He graduated as a lieutenant in 1852, and for some years was attached to the staff college as an assistant professor.

From Project Gutenberg

He was assistant professor at the Sorbonne, and in 1852 he became secretary to the faculty of literature.

From Project Gutenberg

Again was Albert sent back to Cologne, and Thomas was made his assistant professor.

From Project Gutenberg

He served on topographical duty, and for a few months he was assistant professor at the Academy.

From Project Gutenberg

"I believe it is iodine," the assistant professor replied, frigidly.

From Project Gutenberg