Mary Taylor Huber, now retired, was a Senior Scholar with the Bay View Alliance (BVA) from 2010-2022, an international network of research universities exploring strategies to support and sustain the widespread adoption of instructional methods that lead to better student learning.  She was also a contributing editor at Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, where she wrote the “Books Worth Reading” column from 2006 to 2023.

A Senior Scholar Emerita with the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching,  Huber was involved in research at Carnegie from 1985-2015. She directed the Foundation’s roles in the Integrative Learning Project and the US Professors of the Year Award Program and served on the senior leadership teams for the Carnegie Academy for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning and the Carnegie Classifications of Institutions of Higher Education. Earlier, she was director of planning and policy reports.

Huber has written widely on cultures of teaching in higher education. She is co-author of Scholarship Assessed: Evaluation of the Professoriate (with Charles Glassick and Gene Maeroff, 1997). Other books include Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning (co-edited with Sherwyn Morreale, 2002), Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers (2004), The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons (with Pat Hutchings (2005), and a special report on “The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills” (2008), from Carnegie’s project on Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges. She is also co-author of The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact (with Pat Hutchings and Anthony Ciccone, 2011).

With degrees from Bucknell University (Sociology, BA) and the University of Pittsburgh (Anthropology, PhD), Huber has also written about colonial culture in Papua New Guinea. Her books include The Bishops’ Progress: A Historical Ethnography of Catholic Missionary Experience on the Sepik Frontier (1988); Gendered Missions: Women and Men in Missionary Discourse and Practice (coedited with Nancy Lutkehaus, 1999); and Irony in Action: Anthropology, Practice, and the Moral Imagination (coedited with James Fernandez, 2001).