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

“He is the one that had the biggest say in the way that Iran approached its strategy and fought its wars,” said Afshon Ostovar, associate professor at the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.

From The Wall Street Journal

"This seasonal ice cover behaves like a natural blanket for the lake," said Kirsten Siebach, an associate professor of Earth, environmental and planetary sciences and co-author of the study.

From Science Daily

M.P.H., an associate professor of medicine at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

From Science Daily

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