Harrison Waugh is a Sydney historian. He holds undergraduate double degrees in Commerce (Finance) and Advanced Studies (History) from the University of Sydney, graduating in 2021 with First Class Honours and the University Medal in History. Since then, he has worked as an associate in private wealth management and has continued to write about the history of allodial land, writing the winning essay for the Venour V. Nathan Prize (2022) and receiving feedback for, and an invitation to revise and resubmit an article to, the Journal of Australian Colonial History. With his World Universities Ramsay Postgraduate Scholarship, Harrison will study a Master of Philosophy in British and European History at Oxford University. In the future he hopes to work with Australian universities and Indigenous groups to help support claims for land rights by examining how the concept of allodial land could be broadened to incorporate Indigenous peoples’ prior physical and spiritual connections to land.