• Royce Fellowship
Cameron
Smith

Concentration 

Geology

Award Year 

1999

Cameron will examine how women writers and intellectuals influenced Ralph Waldo Emerson's abolitionist rhetoric. Smith also will investigate how Emerson's framing of abolitionism synthesized the sentimental and the intellectual in order to articulate a new conception of race and individual identity during the Jacksonian period.

Cameron earned an MPA from Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government and his JD from New York University School of Law. He is an associate in the Labor & Employment Department of Seyfarth Shaw LLP’s New York office. He is a member of the firm’s Employment Litigation, Wage & Hour and Complex Discrimination practice groups. Cameron's practice is focused on employment litigation. Prior to joining Seyfarth, he was a commercial litigator at Latham & Watkins LLP, where he represented individuals and corporate clients in a wide variety of commercial disputes in federal and state courts as well as in criminal and federal regulatory investigations. His practice involved trade secret misappropriation, breach of indemnification and non-compete agreements, assignment of patents and related intellectual property, securities, contract, fraudulent conveyance, tort and insurance matters. Cameron is also a member of the New York Diversity Action Team and actively participates in pro bono work. He has successfully argued for asylum on behalf of a citizen of the Ivory Coast and obtained DNA testing of newly discovered evidence on behalf of an inmate incarcerated in Virginia.