Fourth year HASTS PhD candidate Turner Adornetto has received a $5000 research grant from the Joint Center for History and Economics at Harvard University. The grants program is a component of a Center initiative called “Visualizing Economic Life.”
With the award money, Turner will embark upon the production of a short documentary film about the phenomenon of company-issued currency in West Virginia. He is currently living and working in that area as he completes field- and archival work for his HASTS dissertation project, tentatively titled “Infrastructures of Renewal: Competing Designs for Redevelopment in Central Appalachia.”
Congratulations, Turner!