Lincoln Hirn is a PhD candidate in the History Department at the University of Connecticut, teacher, labor organizer, and writer. He specializes in the the American Civil War, nineteenth and early twentieth-century American labor history, and the literary memory of slavery and abolition. He has over five years of teaching experience at both four and two-year year institutions, and over four years experience working in higher ed labor organizing as an organizer, shop steward, and C.B.A. negotiator. His critical, academic, and fiction writing can be found in a variety of publications, compiled here.