assistant professor

noun

: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor

assistant professorship noun

Examples of assistant professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Zach Raff, an assistant professor of agricultural and resource economics at NC State, previously told the Observer the parasite poses low risk to North Carolina as long as infected animals are quarantined. — Eva Flowe july 2, Charlotte Observer, 2 July 2026

Velasquez-Potts, an assistant professor of Gender and Sexuality Studies at Santa Clara University, shared her comments via email. — R. Daniel Foster, Forbes.com, 29 June 2026

Federica Nicolardi, assistant professor in papyrology at the University of Naples Federico II, has led a team of papyrologists in creating machine learning models and interpreting the text from the scrolls. — Lianne Kolirin, CNN Money, 26 June 2026

Neil Thompson, an assistant professor of innovation and strategy at the MIT Sloan School of Management, told Fortune. — Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 23 June 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1827, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for assistant professor

• aggressor
• assessor
• compressor
• confessor
• depressor
• hairdresser
• necessar
• oppressor
• possessor
• processor
• repressor
• successor