Education:
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, PhD in History (in-progress)
- Began program Fall Semester 2021, under mentorship of Dr. Manisha Sinha
- Passed general examinations May 2024
- Graduate Certificate in Intersectional Indigeneity, Race, Ethnicity, and Politics, conferred
via the University of Connecticut Political Science Department, Spring 2025
North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, M.A. in History
- Began program August 2019, under mentorship of Dr. Craig Friend
- Degree conferred May 2021
University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, B.A. in History
- Began program August 2015
- Degree conferred May 2019
Research Focus:
I focus primarily on United States history during and immediately after the Civil War, Reconstruction, and the Gilded Age, with emphasis on literature, print culture, and memory as related to anti-racist activism, White supremist propaganda, the American labor movement, and evolving conceptions of American Liberty. My work seeks to be interdisciplinary and transtemporal, with the aim of tracking how legacies of liberation, oppression, and resistance shape orthodox and subaltern consciousness, from Early America through the turn of the twentieth century.
Professional Experience:
Teaching Assistant, August 2021-present, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Member, Bargaining Team, UConn Graduate Employee and Postdoc Union, UAW 6950, Fall 2025-present
Shop Steward, UConn Graduate Employee and Postdoc Union, UAW 6950, Spring 2022-Spring 2025
Draper Research Assistant, August 2023-May 2025, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, under the supervisorship of Dr. Manisha Sinha, James L. and Shirley A. Draper Chair in American History
Member, “Phillips Manuscript Advisory Group,” February 2025-present, Stowe Center for Literary Activism, Hartford, CT
Adjunct Lecturer, Bristol Community College, Fall River Campus, Fall River, MA, January 2025-present, Instructor of Record for HST 315 – US History to 1877
Teaching Assistant, August 2019-May 2021, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC
Social Media Assistant, Fall 2024-May 2025, University of Connecticut History Department
- Primary Administrator, Twitter/X: @UConnHistory
- Primary Administrator, Bluesky: @uconnhistory.bsky.social
Interpretative Intern, May-July 2018, Richmond National Battlefield, Richmond, VA
Contract Teacher, Summer 2021, Frazier Kentucky History Museum, Louisville, KY
Selected Papers and Publications:
Hirn, Lincoln. “’In the Name of God and Truth’: The Slave Narrative at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. In Nineteenth Century Studies (forthcoming).
Hirn, Lincoln. “’Such Outrageous Crimes to Human Beings’: Portrayals of the Domestic Slave Trade in Nineteenth-Century Slave Narratives.” (Under the direction of Dr. Craig Friend. M.A. Thesis. North Carolina State University, 2021. https://repository.lib.ncsu.edu/handle/1840.20/38599.
Hirn, Lincoln. “Dynamic Stories: The Changing Role of the Slave Narrative in Post-bellum America.” (Delivered as a presentation at the Stony Brook University Graduate Student History Conference, September, 2022 and, in revised form, at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association annual conference, March, 2024, under the title “Past the Meridian: Citizenship, Memory, and Mortality in the Post-bellum Slave Narrative”).
Hirn, Lincoln. “Past the Meridian: Citizenship, Memory, and Mortality in the Postbellum Slave Narrative.” (Delivered as a presentation at the Nineteenth Century Studies Association Annual Conference, March 2024).
Hirn, Lincoln. “Waiting for the Call: Memory, Legacy, and the Immortal Liberation.” (Delivered as a presentation at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology GCWS Graduate Student Conference, March 2025).
Hirn, Lincoln. “‘Worthy to Be Counted’: The Postbellum Slave Narrative and Civil War Memory.” (Delivered as a presentation at the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, July 2025).
Selected Book Reviews:
Review of Anti-Slavery Days in Fall River and the Operation of the Underground Railroad, by Edward Adams. (Published in the Winter, 2025 issue of the Historical Journal of Massachusetts).
Review of Navigating Liberty: Black Refugees and Antislavery Reformers in the Civil War South, by John Cimprich. (Published in the January, 2024 issue of the North Carolina Historical Review).
Review of Reconstruction Beyond 150: Reassessing the New Birth of Freedom, edited by Orville Vernon Burton and J. Brent Morris. (Published in the November, 2024 issue of The English Historical Review).
Awards and Recognitions:
Albert E. and Wilda Van Dusen Scholarship, awarded by the University of Connecticut, April, 2022, April 2025.
Gilder Lehrman Scholarly Fellowship, awarded by the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, November, 2023.