aaus-list @ ukrainianstudies.org -- [aaus-list] translating academic ranks

["Adrian Ivakhiv" <aivakhiv@verizon.net>]

Is there a proper way to translate North American academic ranks to Ukrainian?  I see a general trend towards the following on Russian on-line sites, but with some departures from it (e.g., "tenure track" defined as "Professor", etc.): 

 

Assistant professor (British lecturer and senior/principal lecturer) = assystent

Associate professor (Brit. reader) = docent

Full professor (Brit. professor) = professor

Ph.D. = kandydat nauk 

Researcher (or research fellow) = nauchnyi sotrudnyk

Graduate student ("postgraduate" in U.K.) = aspirant

Undergraduate = student

 

Are these correct for Ukraine as well?

 

How about the following:

Ph.D. candidate (is this 'kandydat' or is that reserved for completed Ph.D.s?)

Postdoctoral fellow

Adjunct professor

Research professor

Chair

Distinguished professor

Department (viddil?)

Faculty (kafedra?)

School (fakul'tet?)

 

And is it correct to use "Dr." for ranks beneath full professor and "Prof." only for full professors, or is it commonly used for all tenured (or tenure-track?) ranks? 

 

(Incidentally, someone who knows the answers to these questions should add them to the Wikipedia "professor," "lecturer," and "academic rank" sites. Ukrainians could even beat Russians in getting there.)

 

Thanks very much,

Adrian Ivakhiv