Listed in chronological order by type of publication
Books (3)
Beisaw, April M. and Dania Jordan (n.d.) The Archaeology of American Protests: Remembering Past Social Activism to Envision Better Futures. Under review with University of Florida Press.
Beisaw, April M. (2023) Taking Our Water for the City: Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities. Berghahn Books.
Beisaw, April M. (2013) Identifying and Interpreting Animal Bones: A Manual. Texas A&M University Press.
Edited Collections (2)
Beisaw, April M., David E. Witt, Katie Kirakosian, and Ryan J. Wheeler, editors (2023) Sins of Our Ancestors and of Ourselves: Confronting Archaeological Legacies. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 34(1).
Beisaw, April M. and James G. Gibb, eds (2009) The Archaeology of Institutional Life. University of Alabama Press.
Book Chapters (10)
Beisaw, April M. (2023) Over, Under, and In Between: Collaborative Landscapes from Landscapes using Contemporary Archaeology. In Teaching and Learning the Archaeology of the Contemporary Era, edited by Gabriel Moshenska. Bloomsbury.
Beisaw, April M., Katie Kirakosian, David E. Witt, and Ryan J. Wheeler (2023) Confronting Archaeological Legacies. In Sins of Our Ancestors and of Ourselves: Confronting Archaeological Legacies. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 34(1):5-16.
Beisaw, April M. (2023) Archaeologists as Indian Advocates?: Lessons for Today from Skinner, the Little-Weasel, and Moorehead, the Indian Commissioner. In Sins of Our Ancestors and of Ourselves: Confronting Archaeological Legacies. Archaeological Papers of the American Anthropological Association, 34(1):119-131.
Beisaw, April M. (2020) Telling Ghost Stories: Communicating Across Timescapes and Between World Views. In: Blurring TimeScapes: Subversions to Erasure & Remembering Ghosts. edited by Sara Surface-Evans, Amanda Garrison, and Kisha Supernat. Bergan Books. In press.
Surface-Evans, Sara, April M. Beisaw, Amanda Garrison, and Kisha Supernat (2020) Epilogue. In: Blurring TimeScapes: Subversions to Erasure & Remembering Ghosts. edited by Sara Surface-Evans, Amanda Garrison, and Kisha Supernat. Bergan Books. In press.
Beisaw, April M. (2019) Stress and Shifting Identities in the Susquehanna Valley Around the Time of European Arrival. In: The Susquehannocks: New Perspectives on Settlement and Cultural Identity. edited by Paul Raber. pp. 73-90. Penn State University Press.
Beisaw, April M. (2017) Ruined by the Thirst for Urban Prosperity: Contemporary Archaeology of City Water Systems. In: Contemporary Archaeology and the City: Creativity, Ruination, and Political Action, edited by Laura McAtackney and Krysta Ryzewski. Oxford Press. pp. 132-148.
Beisaw, April M. (2016) Ghost Hunting as Archaeology: Archaeology as Ghost Hunting. In: Lost City, Found Pyramid: Understanding Alternative Archaeology and Pseudoscientific Practices. edited by Jeb J. Card and David S. Anderson. University of Alabama Press. pp. 185-198.
Beisaw, April M. (2015) Faunal Remains. In: The Corey Village and the 16th Century Cayuga World. edited by Jack Rossen. pp. 110-139. Syracuse University Press.
Beisaw, April M. (2009) Constructing Institution Specific Site Formation Models. In: The Archaeology of Institutional Life. Edited by A. M. Beisaw and J.G. Gibb. University of Alabama Press. pp. 49-67.
Journal Articles (12)
Beisaw, April M., William P. Tatum III, Ginny Buechele, Brian G. McAdoo (2021) Mapping a Poorhouse and Pauper Cemetery as Community Engaged Memory Work. International Journal of Historical Archaeology. DOI 10.1007/s10761-021-00617-4
Beisaw, April M. and Glynnis Olin (2020) From Alcatraz to Standing Rock: Archaeology and Contemporary Native American Protests (1969-Today). Historical Archaeology 54(2):537-555. DOI 10.1007/s41636-020-00252-6
Beisaw, April M. and Jane E. Baxter (2017) America’s One-Room Schools: Sites of Regional Authority and Symbols of Rural Autonomy. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 21(4):806-826. DOI 10.1007/s10761-017-0402-9
Beisaw, April M. and Penelope Duus (2016) Repatriation as Inspiration: Multi-Generational Perspectives on American Archaeology-Museum Relationships. Museum Worlds 5(1):95-110.
Beisaw, April M. (2016) Water for the City, Ruins for the Country: Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed. International Journal of Historical Archaeology 20(3):614-626. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10761-016-0363-4
Beisaw, April M. (2012) Environmental History of the Susquehanna Valley Around the Time of European Contact. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 79(4):366-376. https://doi.org/10.5325/pennhistory.79.4.0366
Beisaw, April M. (2010) Memory, Identity, and NAGPRA in the Northeastern United States. American Anthropologist 112(2):244-256. *Awarded Gordon R. Willey Prize* https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1548-1433.2010.01223.x
Beisaw, April M. (2010) Archaeology Without Excavation: Digging Through the Archives of the Pennsylvania State Museum. Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies 77(2):467-476. https://doi.org/10.1353/pnh.2010.0014
Beisaw, April M. (2006) Once Was Not Enough: Founding and Finding Port Tobacco, Charles County. Maryland Archeology, 43(2):1-6.
Beisaw, April M. (2006) Deer, Dogs, Frogs, and Toads: A New Interpretation of the Faunal Remains from the Engelbert Site, Tioga County, New York. Northeast Anthropology 72:1-22.
Beisaw, April M. (2003) The Archaeology of Michigan’s One-Room Schools. Michigan Archaeologist 49(3-4):1-20.
Gibb, James G. and April M. Beisaw (2000) Learning Cast Up From the Mire: Archaeological Investigations of Schoolhouses in the Northeastern United States. Northeastern Historical Archaeology 29:107-129.
Book Reviews (5)
Beisaw, April M. (2024) The Archaeology of Contemporary America. William Caraher 2024. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Review for Historical Archaeology.
Beisaw, April M. (2020) The Archaeology of Removal in North America. TERRANCE WEIK, editor. 2019. University Press of Florida, Gainesville. Review for American Antiquity.
Beisaw, April M. (2019) A History of America in 100 Maps by Susan Schulten. Living Maps Review 6.
Beisaw, April M. (2018) Process and Meaning in Spatial Archaeology: Investigations into Pre-Columbian Iroquoian Space and Place. ERIC E. JONES, JOHN L. CREESE, editors. 2017. University Press of Colorado, Norman. Review for American Antiquity 83(1):176-177.
Beisaw, April M. (2015) Summarizing Pennsylvania’s Archaeological Past. Review of First Pennsylvanians: The Archaeology of Native Americans in Pennsylvania by Kurt W. Carr and Roger W. Moeller. H-Net.
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