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

Allison Daminger is an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison whose research focusses on gender imbalances and cognitive labor in family life. — Jessica Winter, New Yorker, 16 July 2026

Guangchen Chen, an assistant professor of Chinese literature and culture at Emory University in Atlanta, said more bibliophiles and private collectors in China can now afford items that official institutions won’t touch. — Marc Ramirez, USA Today, 15 July 2026

Yet Joseph, who chairs Columbia University’s Women in Medicine Initiative and is a clinical assistant professor in the Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at New York University’s Grossman School of Medicine, chooses not to. — Shannon Carlin, Time, 14 July 2026

Christopher Dunn, an assistant professor of wildfire risk science at Oregon State University, said those outlooks help determine how and where to mobilize resources. — Susan Montoya Bryan, Los Angeles Times, 14 July 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