about me
I am a graduate student in the history department at the University of California, Davis. I am currently working on the convergence of labor and the environment in the nineteenth century. My main focus is on the production and consumption of leather in New York throughout the nineteenth century with an emphasis on the environmental effects of the tanning industry in the Catskills and Adirondacks. My research also uses leather as a lens through which to view the history of capitalism in the nineteenth century, especially the development of complex financial instruments that facilitated rapid, unsustainable growth within the industry.
I am currently completing my research and writing with the generous support of the Forest History Society through the Walter S. Rosenberry Fellowship. In the last few years I have served as a Graduate Student Researcher for the UC Davis Mellon Research Initiative for Environments and Societies, a project that builds cross-disciplinary collaboration in the environmental humanities and humanistic social sciences to undertake the broad rethinking of human-nature interactions that are critical to meeting the environmental challenges of our era. I was recently selected as the Peter J. Shields Library Special Collections Fellow where I worked with the Special Collections Department to try and highlight some archives that might be of interest for social science researchers.
In addition to my research and employment obligations at UC Davis I teach at institutions of higher education around the Bay Area. I have taught a variety of courses including: U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History 1865 to Present, US History 1945 to Present, The US in the 1960s, California History, World History to 1500, World History 1500 to Present, and The West and Its Traditions. I have taught both face-to-face and online courses. Most recently, I have held teaching positions at UC Davis, Mills College, and Solano College.
I am also an active participant in labor and social justice movements at the colleges and universities I have worked for. While at UC Davis I served as the unit recording secretary for UAW 2865, the union that represents academic student employees at the University of California. I have also served on the bylaws and elections committees. At Solano College I have served as the chair of the Solano Adjunct Coalition and as one of the elected adjunct representatives to the executive board of the Solano College Faculty Association, the bargaining unit for full- and part-time faculty. At Mills College I have participated in meetings for the newly organized adjunct union represented by SEIU.
I am a graduate student in the history department at the University of California, Davis. I am currently working on the convergence of labor and the environment in the nineteenth century. My main focus is on the production and consumption of leather in New York throughout the nineteenth century with an emphasis on the environmental effects of the tanning industry in the Catskills and Adirondacks. My research also uses leather as a lens through which to view the history of capitalism in the nineteenth century, especially the development of complex financial instruments that facilitated rapid, unsustainable growth within the industry.
I am currently completing my research and writing with the generous support of the Forest History Society through the Walter S. Rosenberry Fellowship. In the last few years I have served as a Graduate Student Researcher for the UC Davis Mellon Research Initiative for Environments and Societies, a project that builds cross-disciplinary collaboration in the environmental humanities and humanistic social sciences to undertake the broad rethinking of human-nature interactions that are critical to meeting the environmental challenges of our era. I was recently selected as the Peter J. Shields Library Special Collections Fellow where I worked with the Special Collections Department to try and highlight some archives that might be of interest for social science researchers.
In addition to my research and employment obligations at UC Davis I teach at institutions of higher education around the Bay Area. I have taught a variety of courses including: U.S. History to 1865, U.S. History 1865 to Present, US History 1945 to Present, The US in the 1960s, California History, World History to 1500, World History 1500 to Present, and The West and Its Traditions. I have taught both face-to-face and online courses. Most recently, I have held teaching positions at UC Davis, Mills College, and Solano College.
I am also an active participant in labor and social justice movements at the colleges and universities I have worked for. While at UC Davis I served as the unit recording secretary for UAW 2865, the union that represents academic student employees at the University of California. I have also served on the bylaws and elections committees. At Solano College I have served as the chair of the Solano Adjunct Coalition and as one of the elected adjunct representatives to the executive board of the Solano College Faculty Association, the bargaining unit for full- and part-time faculty. At Mills College I have participated in meetings for the newly organized adjunct union represented by SEIU.
Nickolas Perrone
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
nmperrone@ucdavis.edu
One Shields Avenue
Davis, CA 95616
nmperrone@ucdavis.edu