Carolyn Martin

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Carolyn “Biddy” Martin is the current Provost of Cornell University in Ithaca, New York. She was named to that position on July 1, 2000. The provost is the university president's first deputy officer and reports to the president as the chief educational officer and chief operating officer of the university. The provost is responsible for overseeing all academic programs within the university, with the exception of those programs reporting to the provost for medical affairs in New York City.

On May 7, 2008, she was announced as one of four finalists for the Chancellor position at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. On May 28, 2008, she was named the next Chancellor of UW-Madison, subject to approval of the Board of Regents in early June.

Martin received her Ph.D. in German Literature in 1985 from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and has been on the faculty at Cornell since 1985. In 1991, she was promoted to Associate Professor in the Department of German Studies with a joint appointment in the Women’s Studies Program. She served as Chair of the Department of German Studies from 1994-97, and in 1997 was promoted to full Professor in the department. In 1996, she was appointed Senior Associate Dean in the College of Arts and Sciences.

Martin is a distinguished scholar of German Studies and author of numerous articles and two books—one on a literary and cultural figure in the Freud circle, Lou Andreas-Salomé, and the other on gender theory. She received her undergraduate degree from the College of William and Mary, where she was a member of the Phi Beta Kappa society, and a masters degree from Middlebury College.