associate professor

American  

noun

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

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associate professor British  

noun

1. (in the US and Canada) a university teacher lower in rank than a full professor but higher than an assistant professor

2. (in New Zealand) a senior lecturer holding the rank below professor

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Other Word Forms

• associate professorship noun

Etymology

Origin of associate professor

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

Mr. Goldman is an associate professor of humanities in the Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education at the University of Florida and a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

From The Wall Street Journal

Matt Motta, a policy researcher and associate professor at Boston University’s School of Public Health, has spent years researching attitudes toward vaccination in humans and animals.

From The Wall Street Journal

Dingoes are wild, predatory animals and need to be treated with respect, said Bill Bateman, associate professor in the school of molecular and life sciences at Curtin University.

From Barron's

At the Cleveland Clinic Children's Hospital, Fariba Rezaee participated as associate professor of pediatrics and staff physician in the Center for Pulmonary Medicine.

From Science Daily

Mia T. Levine is an associate professor in the Department of Biology in the School of Arts & Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania.

From Science Daily