I'm a social historian and Africanist with interests in the dynamics of colonial settlement, slavery, household formation, and the environment. In the context of 18th-C South Africa, that basically means contested allocation of scarce resources: water, arable land, labor, and marriageable women. I'm at work on 2 projects right now: 1) a monographic study of the ways in which knowledge about the environment was represented in 18th and early 19th C art forms in Southern Africa; and 2) a college world history textbook. At THATCamp, I'm hoping for conversations about non-textual ways to convey argument and information, particularly to undergraduate students; textbooks that aren't contained between printed covers; and the technology training/DH component of graduate education in humanities departments.