This week, Richard and Ryan interview Dr April Beisaw.

Bio: Dr. April M. Beisaw is an archaeologist who specializes in America's recent past. She is currently investigating how urban water systems impact distant rural communities whose lands are cleared for reservoirs. As a professor of anthropology, April teaches courses on Native American culture, museum ethics, and forensic anthropology. Lectures for her archaeology seminar, Ruins and Haunting History, are available on Youtube. Her most recent book is Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual, published by Texas A&M University Press. April lives and teaches in the Hudson Valley of New York and spends most of her free time exploring landscapes by bicycle.

Topics discussed:

1. What does an anthropology do?
2. A lot of time advising students
3. Research and writing
4. Documentary of faces of death
5. Pre Covid workflow
6. Most interesting expedition
7. Research project into red power movement in sf.
8. Discussion of different protests going on right now
9. Studying disasters and their impact
10. How our inflexibility impacts how disastrous an event is
11. Colin Kapernick Alcatraz
12. A tribe called red.
13. The belief that sustainability is something you buy

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