Mary Taylor Huber is a senior scholar at The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. A cultural anthropologist, she has written widely about cultures of teaching in higher education, including recent publications on "Disciplinary Styles in the Scholarship of Teaching" (2002), "Balancing Acts: The Scholarship of Teaching and Learning in Academic Careers" (2004), and, with Pat Hutchings, "The Advancement of Learning: Building the Teaching Commons" (2005).