Harrison Croft

Harrison Croft is a PhD candidate at the Monash Indigenous Studies Centre, on unceded Boon Wurrung Country. Harrison’s work is situated within Monash’s Global Encounters and First Nations Peoples research project, and his thesis is investigating changing human, animal, and plant relationships with Birrarung (Yarra River).

Harrison Croft reviews ‘Wetlands in a Dry Land: More-than-human histories of Australia’s Murray-Darling Basin’ by Emily O’Gorman

October 2024, no. 469 • 25 September 2024

The Iranian city of Ramsar, overlooking the Caspian Sea, was the site of a meeting that brought together delegates from around the world at the beginning of 1971. The meeting was held to determine the future global management of the world’s few remaining wetlands, vital habitats for transnational migratory bird species such as Latham’s Snipe (Gallinago hardwickii), which fly annually between A ... (read more)

Harrison Croft reviews ‘Climate Change and International History: Negotiating science, global change, and environmental justice’ by Ruth A. Morgan

May 2024, no. 464 • 22 April 2024

In 2020, with Katie Holmes and Andrea Gaynor, Ruth A. Morgan co-authored ‘Doing Environmental History in Urgent Times’, an article which was published in a dedicated ‘In urgent times’ edition of History Australia. With more than 8,800 views since its publication, which coincided with the first Covid lockdowns, the paper has gone on to become that journal’s most read article in its twenty ... (read more)