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

The privacy dangers Grok may present aren’t fully known because X may have privacy protections not known by the public, according to Matthew McCoy, assistant professor of medical ethics and health policy at the University of Pennsylvania. —Sasha Rogelberg, Fortune, 11 Jan. 2026

Kevin DeLuca, an assistant professor of political science at Yale University who has researched pink slime websites, conducted an experiment that showed subjects both real unbiased news sites and others produced by Metric Media. —Colin Lecher, Los Angeles Times, 11 Jan. 2026

Jemma DeCristo is an assistant professor at UC Davis. —Ishani Desai, Sacbee.com, 8 Jan. 2026

To try and get around these limitations, Norberto Gonzalez-Juarbe, an assistant professor of cell biology and molecular genetics at the University of Maryland, and his colleagues at the project analyzed several samples taken from various artifacts. —Jackie Flynn Mogensen, Scientific American, 7 Jan. 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