Dr. April M. Beisaw is a full professor of anthropology at Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) and a Fulbright U.S. Scholar at the Natural History Museum Vienna (Austria). As an archaeologist, April uses the past to critique the present and help reimagine the future. In 2022, she published “Taking Our Water for the City: The Archaeology of New York City’s Watershed Communities.” This book summarizes a decade of research into the cultural costs of urban water systems. In 2025, “The Archaeology of American Protests” will be published. This co-authored monograph surveys 400 years of protesting in what is now the United States. Today’s struggles for equality, prosperity, and self-determination have deep roots and understanding that long-term continuity can help shape current and future activism. April is an associate editor of the journal “Historical Archaeology,” a member of the board for the Society for Historical Archaeology, a member of the steering committee for the Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory group (CHAT), and a past winner of the Gordon Willey Prize awarded by the Archaeology Division of the American Anthropological Association. April was a Crow Canyon lab intern in the summer of 1998.