Ken Foote is the Erich W. Zimmermann Regents Professor of Geography and Director of the Environmental Information Systems Laboratory at the University of Texas at Austin.  He teaches computer research techniques, cultural and historical geography, and has led several projects sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop Web-based instructional materials in higher education.  These include the Geographer's Craft Project, completed in 1996, to create one of the very first online textbooks in geography.  He is now leading the Virtual  Geography Department Project to establish an international clearinghouse for curriculum materials in the Worldwide Web.  He is also co-chair of the newly organized International Network for Learning and Teaching Geography in Higher
Education.  His recent publications include the co-edited Re-reading Cultural Geography (1994) and Shadowed Ground: America's Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy (1997), which won the 1998 J. B. Jackson Prize of the Association of American Geographers.