assistant professor
noun
: a member of a college or university faculty who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor
assistant professorship
noun
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Jerel Ezell is a sociologist and assistant professor at the University of Chicago Medical Center.
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Jerel Ezell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Or, this particular shorter-snout phenotype, or trait, could be a signal of something else entirely, said zooarchaeologist Kathryn Grossman, an assistant professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University, who was not involved in the research.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Rafiqul Islam Rana, an assistant professor in the Department of Retailing at the University of South Carolina.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Trovatello is now an assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
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Jerel Ezell, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2025
Or, this particular shorter-snout phenotype, or trait, could be a signal of something else entirely, said zooarchaeologist Kathryn Grossman, an assistant professor of anthropology at North Carolina State University, who was not involved in the research.
—Amanda Schupak, CNN Money, 24 Nov. 2025
Rafiqul Islam Rana, an assistant professor in the Department of Retailing at the University of South Carolina.
—Howard Cohen, Miami Herald, 22 Nov. 2025
Trovatello is now an assistant professor at Politecnico di Milano.
—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 21 Nov. 2025
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“Assistant professor.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/assistant%20professor. Accessed 1 Dec. 2025.
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