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

Derived Forms

• associate professorship
  noun

Etymology

Origin of associate professor

First recorded in 1815–25

Example Sentences

Associate professor of law at University of Oxford, Michael Foran, thinks there will be more cases like this.

From BBC • Jan. 16, 2026

Associate professor Håkon Reiersen with the museum said the gold pendants — flat, thin, single-sided gold medals called bracteates — date from around A.D.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 7, 2023

Associate professor Lisa Schiller said the service evolved out of work she was already doing in western Wisconsin.

From Washington Times • Oct. 20, 2018

Associate professor Aeron Hurt, of the Melbourne-based Peter Doherty Institute for Infection and Immunity, said scientists had previously thought viruses rarely reached Antarctica.

From The Guardian • Sep. 20, 2016

Associate professor Joseph Ng told The Associated Press on Tuesday he was one of 12 people at a biology department meeting Friday at the University of Alabama-Huntsville.

From US News • Feb. 16, 2010