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assistant professor

American  

noun

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


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

Etymology

Origin of assistant professor

An Americanism dating back to 1850–55

Example Sentences

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"These vascular measures are capturing something meaningful about brain health," said Meredith N. Braskie, PhD, senior author of the study and assistant professor of neurology at the Keck School of Medicine.

From Science Daily

For women like Lauren Aulet, a neuroscientist and assistant professor at the University of Massachusetts, the files revealed conversations that were more brash than she expected.

From Salon

“You have large-scale gatherings of people for harvest days and feast days,” says Samuel Backer, assistant professor of history at the University of Maine.

From The Wall Street Journal

James Fletcher, assistant professor of digital futures at the University of Bath, has spent more than a decade researching how people with dementia use technology in everyday life.

From The Wall Street Journal

“These social changes exist in a legal gray area,” said Andrew Leber, an assistant professor at Tulane University and a nonresident fellow at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East program.

From The Wall Street Journal