assistant professor

American  

noun

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

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assistant professor British  

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

• assistant professorship noun

Etymology

Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Among them is Ravi Bettaswami, an assistant professor at a private college who says that he has also been inspired to build a collection of thousands of books.

From BBC

“I don’t know what things are going to look like in June,” said Andrew Bertoli, an assistant professor at IE University in Segovia, Spain, and an expert on the social and political effects of sports.

From Los Angeles Times

Understanding why aging so often goes hand in hand with disease is the central focus of the lab led by Kris Burkewitz, assistant professor of cell and developmental biology.

From Science Daily

M.A., an assistant professor of neurology at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City.

From Science Daily

Benjamin Matheson, assistant professor at the University of Bern’s Institute on Philosophy, studies collective shame and writes on celebrity apology.

From Los Angeles Times