Mary Taylor Huber, now retired, was a senior scholar from 2010 to 2022 with the Bay View Alliance, a network of research universities in the US and Canada exploring ways to strengthen departmental and institutional cultures of teaching and learning. She also served from 2006 to 2023 as a contributing editor at Change: The Magazine of Higher Learning, where she wrote a regular column on “Books Worth Reading.”

A senior scholar emerita at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, she directed Carnegie’s Cultures of Teaching project, as well as the Foundation’s roles in the Integrative Learning Project and the US Professors of the Year Award. She also 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.

A cultural anthropologist, Huber was involved in research at the Carnegie Foundation from 1985-2015, and 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). Her 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 The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Reconsidered: Institutional Integration and Impact (with Pat Hutchings and Anthony Ciccone, 2011).

Huber has also authored several special reports, including Integrative Learning: Mapping the Terrain (with Pat Hutchings, 2004) for the Integrative Learning Project–a joint initiative of the Carnegie Foundation and the Association of American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U),  and The Promise of Faculty Inquiry for Teaching and Learning Basic Skills (2008) for Carnegie’s project on Strengthening Pre-Collegiate Education in Community Colleges. Her most recent stand-alone essay is Teaching for Liberal Learning in Higher Education (2020), an e-book published by the AAC&U.

With degrees from Bucknell University (Sociology, BA) and the University of Pittsburgh (Anthropology, PhD), Mary Taylor 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).

Contact: mary.t.huber@gmail.com