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April Beisaw (email to update your profile)
Profile last updated: 10/24/02
 
Address: 403 Village Green Blvd, #205, Ann Arbor, MI 48105
County: Washtenaw
Phone (w): 734-327-0477
Phone (h): 734-213-0373
Fax: 734-332-9940
E-mail: abeisaw@yahoo.com
 
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Non-academic affiliation: -
Degree: M.A. Anthropology
Major: Archaeology, Chemistry
Minor: -
 
Specialization areas: Anthropology; Archaeology; History: One Room Schools; Other: Zooarchaeology
Implementing projects as: Consultant/Planner, Presenter/Panelist, Project Evaluator
Project types: Live Events Exhibitions, School Projects, Media, New Technology
Areas willing to participate: Planning Projects, Developing Projects, Research
 

Past experience: Planner, Participant in official Michigan Archaeology Day Event: The Archaeology of the Blaess School. Participant in various public archaeology programs including those employed at Crow Canyon Archaeological Center, Cortez, Colorado and the Lost Towns Project of Annapolis, Maryland.

Invited speaker for the Michigan Archaeology Society (Ann Arbor Chapter), the Kempf House (Ann Arbor), the Saline Rotary Club, and the Archaeology Society of Maryland (Annapolis Chapter).

 
Suggestions for public humanities projects: Topic: The History and Archaeology of Michigan's One-Room Schools. Audience: All ages. Location: Schools/Museums/Preservation Groups Format: Talk with photograph and artifact visual aids as well as some props which animate a reading from a 19th century document on the requirements of schoolhouse construction (specifically on how sufficient air is needed so as to prevent extinguishing the "flame" of the children).
 
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