The title of Professor supersedes the title of Doctor, at least in the case of a PhD (I’m not sure about MD, but would assume similarly). His CV indicates pretty clearly that he is an Associate Professor at temple university, so the correct title is Professor.
Again, I am being somewhat super-pedantic here, and I apologize for any annoyance this causes. But hopefully it will help you in your future signalling endeavors.
Also, in most situations it is okay to just go by first name, or full name (without any titles); I have I think exclusively referred to Pei as Pei.
ETA: Although also yes, his homepage suggests that he may be okay with being addressed as Doctor. I still advocate the general strategy of avoiding titles altogether, and if you do use titles, refer to Professors as Professors (failure to do so will not offend anyone, but may make you look silly).
The situation in the US and Canada is quite relaxed, actually, nothing like in, say, Germany. Dr is a perfectly valid form of address to any faculty member.
Well, at least in my experience the Professors who don’t actually have doctorates tend not to appreciate having to correct you on that point. But yeah.
When I received the proofs for my IJMC papers, the e-mail addressed me as “dear professor Sotala” (for those who aren’t aware, I don’t even have a Master’s degree, let alone a professorship). When I mentioned this on Facebook, some people mentioned that there are countries where it’s a huge faux pas to address a professor as anything else than a professor. So since “professor” is the highest form of address, everyone tends to get called that in academic communication, just to make sure that nobody’ll be offended—even if the sender is 95% sure that the other isn’t actually a professor.
I really would not have guessed that it would be considered polite or appropriate to call someone a “higher” form of address than they’re entitled to, especially when it actually refers to something concrete. Learn something new every day, I guess.
The title of Professor supersedes the title of Doctor, at least in the case of a PhD (I’m not sure about MD, but would assume similarly). His CV indicates pretty clearly that he is an Associate Professor at temple university, so the correct title is Professor.
Again, I am being somewhat super-pedantic here, and I apologize for any annoyance this causes. But hopefully it will help you in your future signalling endeavors.
Also, in most situations it is okay to just go by first name, or full name (without any titles); I have I think exclusively referred to Pei as Pei.
ETA: Although also yes, his homepage suggests that he may be okay with being addressed as Doctor. I still advocate the general strategy of avoiding titles altogether, and if you do use titles, refer to Professors as Professors (failure to do so will not offend anyone, but may make you look silly).
...Not in my experience. Do you have some particular reason to believe this is the case in Philadelphia?
The situation in the US and Canada is quite relaxed, actually, nothing like in, say, Germany. Dr is a perfectly valid form of address to any faculty member.
Well, at least in my experience the Professors who don’t actually have doctorates tend not to appreciate having to correct you on that point. But yeah.
When I received the proofs for my IJMC papers, the e-mail addressed me as “dear professor Sotala” (for those who aren’t aware, I don’t even have a Master’s degree, let alone a professorship). When I mentioned this on Facebook, some people mentioned that there are countries where it’s a huge faux pas to address a professor as anything else than a professor. So since “professor” is the highest form of address, everyone tends to get called that in academic communication, just to make sure that nobody’ll be offended—even if the sender is 95% sure that the other isn’t actually a professor.
I really would not have guessed that it would be considered polite or appropriate to call someone a “higher” form of address than they’re entitled to, especially when it actually refers to something concrete. Learn something new every day, I guess.