Cameron Sparling

Cameron Sparling (he/him, they/them) is a third year direct-entry PhD student. His research focuses on migration in the late twentieth century Canadian and American novel, encompassing three main themes: the quest to secure a home in another peoples' land; the narrative function of testimony in migration studies; and the intersections between modern and contemporary migration and Indigenous and decolonial theory.

Cameron holds a BA (Honours) from the University of Calgary. He is a Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation Scholar (2025–28), a Junior Fellow at Massey College, and a member of the Collaborative Specialization in Diaspora and Transnational Studies. Outside of school, he competes in and occasionally teaches Irish dance. :-)