Assistant professor
a teacher in a college or university who ranks above an instructor and below an associate professor.
Contemporary Examples
“It was exhilarating,” says the University of Wisconsin assistant professor of arts education.
Scott Walker’s Last Stand? Democrats Lose Momentum In Wisconsin Sally Kohn May 31, 2012
Do you know Richard Bargis, assistant professor of philosophy at your alma mater?
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Molly Worthen is an assistant professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Did the Southern Baptist ‘Conservative Resurgence’ Fail? Molly Worthen May 31, 2014
Eric Puchner is an assistant professor of literature at Claremont McKenna College.
Juvenilia: A Bibliography Eric Puchner February 14, 2010
Gregory Weiner, assistant professor of political science at Assumption College in Worcester, Mass.
Obama’s Second-Term Crisis David Freedlander January 26, 2013
Historical Examples
In fact, she is to marry a school-master—that is, an assistant professor at Yale.
A Bicycle of Cathay Frank R. Stockton
The assistant professor of history glared through his spectacles.
Ann Arbor Tales Karl Edwin Harriman
Mr. Brainerd was, however, only an assistant professor, and it was now understood by all that he would never be anything higher.
Tutors’ Lane Wilmarth Lewis
He saw the assistant professor’s wife on the walk below with the little Mary.
Ann Arbor Tales Karl Edwin Harriman
The assistant professor, squaring his shoulders, assumed the privilege of answering the breezy youth.
Ann Arbor Tales Karl Edwin Harriman
noun
(US & Canadian) a university teacher lower in rank than an associate professor
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