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 Word Forms

• assistant professorship noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of assistant professor¹

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

Virginia Minni is an assistant professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

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“Exit barriers are a key reason for India’s underdeveloped manufacturing sector,” said Shoumitro Chatterjee, co-author of a new paper on Indian manufacturing and an assistant professor of international economics at Johns Hopkins University.

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Kilpatrick, a research assistant professor at Northwestern’s Center for Interdisciplinary Exploration and Research in Astrophysics, is an expert on the life cycles of massive stars.

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“We think that they are falsely implying to others that they are more virtuous than they actually are,” says Jillian Jordan, an assistant professor of business administration at Harvard Business School, who studies moral signaling.

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Daniel Deacon, assistant professor of law at the University of Michigan, says that the FCC can effectively stop corporate mergers by denying the transfer of broadcast licences to the new owners.

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