Digital Anthropology and VR

Jeffrey Vadala PhD

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

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 and Jennifer Chmilar

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 PhD

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

Cerro Maya 3d (Cerros), Belize

In my introductory anthropology class, I created an interactive learning project where students had to explore a virtual reality...

VR Past & Present