noun

• A college teacher ranking immediately below an associate professor.

  ‘She is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado in Boulder.’

  More example sentences

  • ‘He is an assistant professor at the University of Oregon School of Law.’
  • ‘The following year, he was a visiting assistant professor of history at Oregon State University.’
  • ‘He is an assistant professor of English at Western Kentucky University.’
  • ‘She is an assistant professor of education at Pepperdine University.’
  • ‘He is an assistant professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Anaethesiology.’
  • ‘He used the program when he was an assistant professor at the University of California.’
  • ‘Currently he is an assistant professor of political science at Hebrew University in Jerusalem.’
  • ‘She is an assistant professor of European studies at Johns Hopkins University.’
  • ‘He is an assistant professor of communication at the University of Colorado at Denver.’
  • ‘He was also an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School.’
  • ‘She is now an assistant professor of creative nonfiction at the University of Alabama.’
  • ‘An assistant professor has a doctorate or some other high-level degree and usually has some teaching experience.’
  • ‘After a promotion to assistant professor at the University of Pennsylvania in 1916, he remained there for a further four years.’
  • ‘He is now an assistant professor of Communication Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Madison.’
  • ‘Since 1988 he has been a senior assistant professor in penal law at Sofia University.’
  • ‘At that time reforms were being made in universities so they offered me a position as an assistant professor.’
  • ‘He served previously as an assistant professor at West Point and as a battalion executive officer in Europe.’
  • ‘It had a blurb on the back from an assistant professor of urban studies at Westmont, our local Christian college.’
  • ‘He is currently a visiting assistant professor at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn.’