Wendy Wilkins

This article is about Vice President at the University of North Texas. For the "Search for Tomorrow" character, see Wendy McNeil Carter.

Wendy Wilkins (born March 1, 1949) is the provost and executive vice president at New Mexico State University.[1] She took the post in mid-July 2010 after resigning from the University of North Texas at the end of business day, July 1st, 2010.[2] Prior to beginning her service as the University of North Texas Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs in 2007,[3] Wilkins has served as Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at Michigan State University[4] and as Associate Dean for Academic Personnel in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Arizona State University.[5] Her work in academic administration began with service as Associate Chair, and then Chair, of the Department of English at ASU.

Education

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]

Employment and research

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. As a faculty member, Wilkins has held numerous positions both in the United States and in Mexico. In the U.S, in addition to ASU and MSU, she has served in a visiting capacity at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and at the University of Washington. In Mexico City, she was a professor of Linguistics at Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana, Unidad Ixtapalapa; Centro de Estudios Lingüísticos y Literarios, El Colegio de México; and Departamento de Lingüística, Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historia. She also held a research position at Instituto de Investigaciones en Matemáticas Applicadas y en Sistemas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México.

Since becoming an administrator, Wilkins has remained involved in service to the profession. She engaged actively with the Council of Colleges of Arts and Sciences, including service on the Board of Directors. Within Linguistics, she was elected delegate-at-large for Section Z (Linguistics and Language Science) of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and has accepted numerous service assignments for the Linguistic Society of America (LSA).

Administrative professional activities

National and state

Michigan State University (1998–2004)

Arizona State University (1987–1997)

Publications

Wendy Wilkins at a book signing

Books

Refereed Publications

Book reviews

Recent Academic Presentations

References

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  2. "Wilkins resigns". KNTU.fm. Retrieved 2010-06-29.
  3. 3.0 3.1 "Former Michigan State dean Wendy Wilkins named provost - University of North Texas News Service". Web3.unt.edu. 2007-07-30. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  4. https://www.msu.edu/~wwilkins/
  5. "UNT Insider - August 2007 - Wendy Wilkins". Unt.edu. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  6. "de Gruyter Reference Global - The Linguistic Review". Reference-global.com. 2007-12-21. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  7. "de Gruyter Reference Global - The Linguistic Review". Reference-global.com. 2005-02-22. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
  8. "Cambridge Journals Online - Behavioral and Brain Sciences". Bbsonline.org. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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  10. "Linguistics and the Teaching of Science. Linguistics in the Undergraduate Curriculum, Appendix 4-E". Eric.ed.gov:80. Retrieved 2010-03-16.
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  13. http://google.com/search?q=cache:5mhXK8n8EqEJ:www.psych.nyu.edu/gary/marcusArticles/marcus_birth_reviews.pdf+Review+of+%27%27The+Birth+of+the+Mind%27%27+Wilkins&cd=2&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us&client=safari
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  15. "Language TOC Vol.59 No.4". Lsadc.org. Retrieved 2010-03-16.

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