Wendy Wilkins

Wendy Wilkins (born March 1, 1949) was provost and executive vice president at New Mexico State University until November 2012.

[1] She took the post in mid-July 2010 after resigning from the University of North Texas at the end of business day, July 1, 2010.

Wilkins’ academic preparation, in Linguistics, includes a PhD from the University of California at Los Angeles, two post-doctoral appointments in Cognitive Science at the University of California at Irvine, and a pre-doctoral appointment in the Department of Linguistics and Philosophy at MIT.

[3] Wilkins' primary research training was in syntactic theory; more recently she has worked on the evolutionary neurobiology of language and comparative linguistic and musical cognition.

She engaged actively with the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, including service on the Board of Directors.