Speakers

Project: Global Virtual Access Library

Lynn Dodd is a Professor of the Practice of Religion and Spatial Sciences at USC. She is also the founder and co-director of the Archaeology Research Center Extended Reality Lab at USC.

Project: Booksnake

Sean Fraga is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Studies and History at USC. He is the project director for Booksnake.

Project: Canyon Country Cultural Landscapes Virtual Reality (CCCLVR)

Eric Heller is a faculty member in the Anthropology department at USC. He is the coordinator of the Canyon Country Cultural Landscapes Virtual Reality Collaboratory project.

Project: Digital Kormantin

Michael Jarvis is an Associate Professor of History at Rochester University and the Director of the Digital Kormantin project.

Project: Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage (DATCH)

Joseph Kider is an Associate Professor at IST, School of Modeling, Simulation, and Training at the University of Central Florida and the co-director of the SENSEable Design Laboratory. He is a co-principal investigator for the Documenting and Triaging Cultural Heritage project there.

Project: Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration

Mark Letteney is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington. His book, Ancient Mediterranean Incarceration, co-authored with Matthew David Larsen, will be published open access in 2024.

Project: Sacred Geographic Superimpositions: A Reimagining of Public Art, for Us, by Us, as Enshrined Spaces

Synatra Smith is the Council on Library and Information Resources-Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University and the Philadelphia Museum of Art. Among her many accomplishments, she is the creator of the Sacred Geographic Superimpositions project.

Projects: VSim & World’s Columbian Exposition Reconstruction

Lisa Snyder is the director of campus research initiatives for UCLA’s Office of Advanced Research Computing. She leads the team developing VSim, a software interface, and she is the primary creator of the World’s Columbian Exposition Reconstruction.

Project: Shakespeare VR Project

Stephen Wittek is an Associate Professor of English at Carnegie Mellon University. He is director of the Shakespeare VR Project.

Project: Global Virtual Access Library

Sabina Zonno is the co-director of the Archaeology Research Center Extended Reality Lab at USC and a research associate in European art at the Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens. The Global Virtual Access Library is a project of the Archaeology Research Center Extended Reality Lab.