Featured Undergraduate Researcher- Camilla Reed-Guevara

Our featured student researcher of the month is Camila Reed-Guevara, a senior Classics and Philosophy major who focuses on ethics. As a prior SURE student, conference grant recipient, and a current Mellon Mays Undergraduate fellow, she has had a unique experience in undergraduate research.

Camila took her first classics course and really fell in love with the material during her first year at Emory. She proceeded to ask her professor, Dr. Jonathan Master, if he was doing any research. Dr. Master informed Camila about his book on Seneca the Younger, and she asked him if she could work with him on that topic. She applied to the SURE research partners program and have been working on Seneca Younger ever since.

As a result of her academic pursuits, Camila is now in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship Program, which supports her research on ancient ethics. Camila's research interests are focused on ethics. Her work primarily consists of translating and analyzing Seneca's ethical treatises. She is particularly interested in the themes of education and slavery, and how those topics create a platform for the universal human right to equal and accessible education. Camila has continued to conduct this research through her senior thesis. The thesis is an explication and analysis of Seneca’s beliefs about the necessity of a philosophical education and the unethical system of Roman slavery. She hopes to use this project as a jump-off point for her Masters thesis.

Camila plans to get a masters in classics next year before going to a dual PhD/JD program. Her aspiration is to become a professor of Roman law to explore and teach the intersections it has with modern law in the United States.

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