Princeton University celebrates the accomplishments of Laguna Graduate Cameron Platt '12

"We're delighted by this year's prize winners, all of whom demonstrate the best of Princeton's students," Dean of the College Jill Dolan said. "They not only sustain high grade point averages, but their interests extend well beyond their declared academic paths, into international study, service work, arts practices, and a variety of engagements in campus recreation and community. We're very proud of their work and of their University citizenship."

Cameron graduated from Laguna Blanca School in 2012 and is an A.B. candidate in English who is pursuing certificates in theater and medieval studies.

This summer, on a fellowship awarded by the English department, she took a graduate seminar on James Joyce at the University of Oxford and conducted senior thesis research in 19th-century parish archives in the Bodleian Library at Oxford.

Cameron received the Shapiro Prize for Academic Excellence, as well as several academic prizes from the English department and the theater program. For her senior thesis, she will study the narrative and spatial wanderings of female protagonists in Shakespeare, Jane Austen and Virginia Woolf.

Cameron has acted, directed and served in other roles on 17 theater productions during her first three years at Princeton, through the Program in Theater, Princeton Shakespeare Company, Triangle Club, Grind Arts Company, Theatre Intime and the Princeton University Players, where she is president. She is also a peer academic adviser at Wilson College and is a representative on the undergraduate advisory committee to the English department.