Hannah Fuller is a third-year Ph.D. student in Public and American History at Loyola University Chicago. Her research challenges the idea of urban and rural divides in queer history, by studying how queer women in late 20th-century Chicago formed relationships with natural space. Her approach combines methodologies in cultural history, environmental history, and gender/sexuality studies. She has recently been recognized for her research, winning the 2024 McCluggage Award for Best Graduate Research Paper. Hannah has also held numerous public history internship positions at institutions like the Ozark Lesbian Gay Archive, Chicago’s Gerber Hart Library and Archive, and the Art Institute of Chicago. She carries the skills of her public history work into the ethos of her teaching and research, helping make marginalized histories more accessible and engaging to the broader public.