My name is Emma Kantrowitz, and I am an Honor College freshman at the University of Nevada, Reno, double-majoring in International Affairs and Anthropology with a minor in Business Administration. I’m interested in culture, global systems, travel, and understanding how societies function across the world.
I currently work as a Marketing Assistant for USAC, a national nonprofit study abroad organization, and am completing an internship with the Associated Students of UNR. In high school, I studied abroad in Israel through the Alexander Muss High School Israel Program, an experience that shaped my interest in international affairs. I later became a fellow of the Jewish National Fund, where I helped raise funds and advocate for community development projects.
This course has allowed me to reflect more deeply on the development of our hemisphere and the societies that have evolved within it, especially through themes of identity, power, and resistance across time. It has shaped how I understand history not as something static, but as something still unfolding.
My long-term goal is to work internationally, ideally in a diplomatic role within an embassy. This project is a reflection of that process of learning, questioning, and engaging with how power and culture are represented over time.