associate professor

noun

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

associate professorship noun

Examples of associate professor in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

There are plenty of things the platforms could do to intervene in outsider trading, Joshua Della Vedova, an associate professor of finance at the University of San Diego’s business school, told me. — Kaitlyn Tiffany, The Atlantic, 20 July 2026

Rachel Buckley, the study’s lead author and an associate professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, said the findings provide some of the clearest evidence yet that dementia risk can be detected years before memory problems begin. — Khloe Quill, FOXNews.com, 18 July 2026

And newcomers need name recognition in order for their campaigns to gain traction, said Aubrey Jewett, an associate professor of political science at the University of Central Florida. — Annie Martin, The Orlando Sentinel, 17 July 2026

Connie Hoe is a public health researcher who serves as endowed division head for policy and implementation research at the German Cancer Research Center and as adjunct associate professor at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. — Rebecca Florsheim, STAT, 17 July 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1819, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for associate professor

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