Center Director, the Netherlands
School for International Training (SIT)
Born and raised in Belgium, Jonathan caught the study abroad bug after enrolling in a gap year program in Oregon, where he took his first classes in film and cultural studies, which allowed him to begin to piece together how popular culture mediates both dominant and subversive discourses of identity. That project continued throughout his undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands, where he pursued degrees in American Studies and focused on unpacking changing articulations of femininity in American film and television.
While he was in graduate school, Jonathan began working in study abroad, and by the time he joined SIT in 2023 as Center Director of SIT's Netherlands Learning Center, he had spent 10 years coordinating, managing, and leading short- and long-term study abroad programs in Amsterdam for U.S. college and high school students and faculty. For most of that time, he kept one foot in the classroom, teaching classes located at the intersection of film and television studies, cultural studies, and gender and sexuality studies. At SIT, Jonathan teaches courses in queer and feminist theory, cultural studies, and research methods and ethics.
Accessibility Abroad: How to Accommodate and Adapt When All Goes Wrong
Wednesday, May 27, 2026
3:30 PM - 4:20 PM EDT