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VR Past & Present
Anthropology, Archaeology, and Digital Humanities


Virtual Reality in Higher Education: Using VR to Understand and Explore Ancient Maya Metaphysics
As this year's Five College Postdoctoral scholar of Digital Humanities and Blended Learning, I challenged my Hampshire College class to...
Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jun 25, 20184 min read
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Anthropologically Critiquing Reality: Virtual Realities and Actual Realities
Click Link below for downloadable syllabus: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1-NZ3Kv0mmfzhiY4jw9hxqif5poPZT4zIqoCEWq18bQ8/edit?usp=shar...
Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jan 24, 20186 min read
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Seasonal Rhythms and Quotidian Duties: Insights into the Impact of Environment on Structuring Daily
Here is the abstract for our upcoming Society for American Archaeology presentation in Vancouver. Written with Jennifer Chmilar, this...
Jeffrey Vadala and Jennifer Chmilar
Jan 17, 20171 min read
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Teaching a Digital Anthropology
While conducting my research, I also found that virtual reality environments could be powerful teaching tools. After creating an...
Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jan 4, 20172 min read
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Cerro Maya 3d (Cerros), Belize
In my introductory anthropology class, I created an interactive learning project where students had to explore a virtual reality...
Jeffrey Vadala
Jan 3, 20171 min read
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