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

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Etymology

Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

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Example Sentences

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assistant professor

“That’s the real wild card,” said Sara Sadhwani, assistant professor of politics at Pomona College.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 14, 2026

To explore the relationship between lifestyle choices and emotional resilience, Begdache worked with Jason Cherry, a former Binghamton assistant professor of physical therapy, and former student Alexander J. Talkachov.

From Science Daily ● Oct. 13, 2026

"All of this hit cattle markets, as a whole, negatively," said James Mitchell, an assistant professor and agricultural economist at the University of Arkansas.

From BBC ● Oct. 11, 2026

Long before Urschel became an assistant professor at MIT studying matrices, spectral graph theory and other subjects that sound like gibberish to just about everybody, he was an overachieving kid attending Penn State.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 8, 2026

Ifemelu had met him a few times, an assistant professor of history who had lived in Congo as a child.

From "Americanah" by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

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