 She then studied at Binghamton University, where she obtained an MA degree in anthropology (1979), and a PhD in philosophy through the shirt-lived Program for History and Philosophy of the Social and Behavioral Sciences (1982).Her doctoral dissertation was titled "Positivism and the New Archeology," supervised by Rom Harré.Wylie has held faculty appointments at University of Western Ontario (1985–1998), Washington University in St. Louis (1998–2003), Barnhard/Columbia University (2003–2005), the University of Washington (2005–2017) and Durham University (2013-2017).