Christopher Joseph Westgate (he/him)
Professor College of Arts & Sciences English Providence
Biography and Expertise
My research program includes communication history, digital culture, Latinx media, social identities, and popular music. My scholarship brings qualitative research methods to bear on the interpretation of everyday acts and artifacts. My years of work as a communication scholar and radio professional have convinced me that no questions are more interesting than who exercises power, by what means, and to what ends; the answers to these questions have important implications for media organizations and their workers.
Education
PhD
Texas A&M University
MA
Columbia University
BS
Cornell University
Provost’s Fellowship
Provost’s Office, JWU
Embedded Experiential Learning Across the Curriculum Grant Recipient
Davis Educational Foundation
Open Educational Resources Grant Recipient
New England Board of Higher Education (NEBHE)
Provost Teaching Innovation Grant Award Recipient
Provost, JWU
Senior Toast
JWU
Provost’s Fellowship
Provost’s Office, JWU
JWU Game Changer Student-Led Award
Johnson & Wales Men’s Lacrosse Team
Senior Toast
JWU
JWU Hopes to Become HSI (TV)
WPRI
February 18, 2025
https://www.wpri.com/news/education/jwu-hopes-to-become-hispanic-serving-institution/
Leading at the Edge with Westgate and Young (Podcast)
Institute for Experiential Learning
December, 2024
https://experientiallearninginstitute.org/learning-at-the-edge-with-westgate-young/
Food for Thought (Magazine)
JWU Magazine
June 18, 2024
https://www.jwu.edu/news/stories/magazine/2024/spring/food-for-thought/index.html
“A Music Milestone Reached This Year Reveals a Lot about How the US is Changing” (Internet)
CNN
December 27, 2023
https://www.cnn.com/2023/12/27/entertainment/spanish-language-songs-billboard-hot-100-milestone-cec/index.html
Interview, “Gen Z and Technology,” (Other)
Know Your True Self (Podcast)
March, 2023
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=&cad=rja&uact=8&ved=2ahUKEwjPtY7PiN2AAxX3FzQIHWruBBAQFnoECA8QAQ&url=https%3A%2F%2Fopen.spotify.com%2Fshow%2F70DQAlvpAwZr0KLrhsMnxB&usg=AOvVaw3ZKSPqlCPxBp3mpjvIErhL&opi=89978449
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Westgate, C.
The First Spanish-Language Album to Reach Number One: El Último Tour del Mundo, Bad Bunny, and the Billboard 200.
International Journal of Communication
18
1724-1744
Westgate, C.
Silent pivoting: listening for the inaudible in the Remote University
Sound Studies
7
2
273-275
Westgate, C.
Popular Music Fans and the Value of Concert Tickets
Popular Music and Society
43
1
57-77
Westgate, C. & Rothenbuhler, E.
Community
Wiley
1-9
Westgate, C.
Notes on the wire: ballads, biases, and borders of performance journalism
Media, Culture & Society
35
8
996-1010
Streaming Cultural Voices: The Dual Impact of Music Platforms on Indigenous and Afro-Latine Musicians. Media & Communication in Global Latinidades
Paper
International Communication Association
International Communication Association
Denver
CO
United States
The Reckoning of DEI: Confronting Setbacks, Navigating Challenges, and Reimagining a More Inclusive Future.
Keynote/Plenary Address
New England Education Research Association Conference
NEERO
Portsmouth
NH
United States
Redesigning Global Media: UDL, Experiential Learning, and DEIB in Action
Oral Presentation
University Scholarship & Best Practices Expo
JWU
Providene
RI
United States
Truth, Tension, and Teaching
Lecture
CTL Microsession
Center for Teaching & Learning, JWU
Providence
RI
United States
Collaborating Below Borders: Rosalía’s Postcolonial “Crossunders” in the Global South.
Paper
Society for Cinema and Media Studies
Boston
MA
Ana Macho’s Archipelago: Toward a Reggaeton Fluido for Puerto Rico.
Paper
Pop Conference
New York University
The Clive Davis Institute of Recorded Music, Tisch School of the Arts, NYU
Brooklyn
NY
United States