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VR Past & Present
Anthropology, Archaeology, and Digital Humanities


Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jun 25, 20184 min read
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...
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Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jan 24, 20186 min read
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...
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Jeffrey Vadala and Jennifer Chmilar
Jan 17, 20171 min read
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...
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Jeffrey Vadala PhD
Jan 4, 20172 min read
Teaching a Digital Anthropology
While conducting my research, I also found that virtual reality environments could be powerful teaching tools. After creating an...
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Jeffrey Vadala
Jan 3, 20171 min read
Cerro Maya 3d (Cerros), Belize
In my introductory anthropology class, I created an interactive learning project where students had to explore a virtual reality...
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