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Dr Charles Mather

PhD

Positions

Associate Professor

Faculty of Arts, Department of Anthropology and Archaeology

Contact information

Email

cmmather@ucalgary.ca

Phone number

Office: +1 (403) 220-6426

Location

Office: ES754

Background

Educational Background

B.A. Anthropology, University of Waterloo, 1992

Doctor of Philosophy Archaeology, University of Calgary, 1999

Courses

Course number Course title Semester
ANTH 501 LEC 01 An Anthropology of Comics Fall 2024
ANTH 341 LEC 01 01 Introduction to Medical Anthropology Winter 2024
ANTH 411 LEC 01 Methods and Analysis in Anthropology Winter 2025
ANTH 573 LEC 01 Honours seminar Winter 2025

Publications

  • Enacting Maasai and Palaeoanthropological Versions of Drought in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania. Lee, Patrick, Samson Koromo, Julio Mercader, and Charles Mather. Science and Technology Studies.. 34(1): 43–64. (2020)
  • Scientific facts and oral traditions in Oldupai Gorge, Tanzania: Symmetrically analysing palaeoanthropological and Maasai black boxes.. Lee, Patrick, Samson Koromo, Julio Mercader, and Charles Mather. Social Science Information.. 58(1): 57-83.. (2019)
  • Understanding ethno-cultural differences in cardiac medication adherence behavior: a Canadian study.. King-Shier, Kathryn, Hude Quan, Charles Mather, Eric Chong, Pam LeBlanc, & Nadia Khan. Patient preference and adherence.. 12:1737-1747.. (2018)
  • Ethno-Cultural Considerations in Cardiac Patients’ Medication Adherence. . King-Shier, Kathryn, Shaminder Singh, Nadia Khan, Pam LeBlanc, J.C. Lowe, Charles Mather, E. Chong, and Hude Quan. Clinical Nursing Research.. 26(5): 576-591.. (2017)
  • The influence of ethnicity and gender on navigating an acute coronary syndrome event. . King-Shier, Kathryn, Shaminder Singh, Pam LeBlanc, Charles Mather, Rebecca Humphrey, Hude Quan, and Nadia Khan. European Journal of Cardiovascular Nursing . 14(3):240-247. (2015)
  • Implications of Design on Infection Prevention and Control Practice in a Novel Hospital Unit: The Medical Ward of the 21st Century. . VanSteelandt, Amanda, John Conly, William Ghali, and Charles Mather. Anthropology and Medicine . 22(2): 149-161.. (2015)
  • Understanding the influence of urban- or rural-living on cardiac patients' decisions about diet and physical activity: descriptive decision modeling. . King-Shier, Kathryn, Pamela LeBlanc, and Charles Mather. International Journal of Nursing Studies. 50(11):1513-1523.. (2013)
  • Weight and patients’ decision to undergo cardiac surgery. . King-Shier, Kathryn, Pam LeBlanc, Charles Mather, Sarah Sandham, Cydnee Seneviratne, and Andrew Maitland. Clinical Nursing Research . 22(2):228-249.. (2012)
  • Understanding coronary artery disease patients’ decisions regarding the use of chelation therapy for coronary artery disease: Descriptive decision modeling.. King-Shier, Kathryn, Hude Quan, Charles Mather, Marja J. Verhoef, Merrill Knutson, William A. Ghali. International Journal of Nursing Studies . 49(9): 1074-1083.. (2012)
  • Insider Anthropology and the Study of the Canadian Forces Reserves.. MacIsaac, Derek, Charles Mather, and Anne Irwin. Journal of Military and Strategic Studies . 11(4):1-27.. (2009)
  • Understanding nursing on an acute stroke unit: Perceptions of space, time, and interprofessional Practice. . Seneviratne, Cydnee, Karen Then, and Charles Mather. Journal of Advanced Nursing . 10:1872-1881.. (2009)
  • Older immigrant Sikh men's perspective of the challenges of managing coronary heart disease risk. . Bedi, Harminder, Pamela LeBlanc, Lisa McGregor, Charles Mather, and Kathryn King. Journal of Men’s Health . 5(3):218-226.. (2008)
  • Meanings of the heart among Sikh immigrant women with cardiovascular disease. . Mather, Charles, Kathryn King, and Pam LeBlanc. International Journal of Multiple Research Approaches . 1(1): 39-51.. (2008)
  • Gender-Based Challenges Faced by Older Sikh Women as Immigrants: Recognizing and Acting on the Risk of Coronary Artery Disease. . King, Kathryn, Pam LeBlanc, Julianne Sanguins, and Charles Mather . Canadian Journal of Nursing Research . 38(1): 16-40.. (2006)
  • Medical innovation, unmet medical need, and the drug pipeline.. Mather, Charles. Canadian Journal of Clinical Pharmacology. 13(1): e85-e91.. (2006)
  • Traditional taboos in biological conservation: the case of Colobus Vellorosus at the Boabeng Fiema Monkey Sanctuary, Central Ghana. . Saj, Tania, Charles Mather, and Pascale Sicotte. Social Science Information. 45:285-310.. (2006)
  • Time and the structuring of ritual performance in the xenotransplantation debate.. Bickford, Julia, Charles Mather, & Usher Fleising. Public Understanding of Science. 14(3): 235-247.. (2005)
  • Accusations of genital theft: A case from Northern Ghana. . Mather, Charles. Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry. 29(1):33-52. . (2005)
  • The pipeline and the porcupine: Alternate metaphors of the physician-industry relationship. . Mather, Charles. Social Science and Medicine . 60(6):1323-1334.. (2005)
  • Unpacking Animal Metaphors for Commercial Relationships in the Biotechnology Industry. . Mather, Charles, Julia Bickford, and Usher Fleising. New Genetics and Society . 23(2):187-203.. (2004)
  • Translating Knowledge from Bench to Bedside: The Controversial Social Life of t-PA. . Mather, Charles, Liam Taylor, and Usher Fleising. Risk Management: An International Journal. 6(2):49-60.. (2004)
  • Shrines and the domestication of landscape. . Mather, Charles. Journal of Anthropological Research . 59(1): 23-45.. (2002)
  • Lineage organization of the Tallensi Compound: The social logic of domestic space in Northern Ghana. . Gabrilopoulos, Nick, Charles Mather, and Roland Apentiik. Africa . 72(2):221-244.. (2002)
  • Kusasi Ancestor Shrines and Compound Space. . Mather, Charles. In Jon Hageman and Erica Hill eds, The Archaeology of Ancestors: Death, Memory, and Veneration.Tallahassee, University Press of Florida. 124-144.. (2016)
  • Shrines and compound abandonment: ethnoarchaeological observations in Northern Ghana. Mather, Charles. In Allan Charles Dawson ed, West African Shrines. Calgary, University of Calgary Press. 95-120. (2009)
  • Personal, social, and cultural dimensions of health in Kusasi ethnomedicine. Mather, Charles. n James Pappas, William Smythe, and Angelina Baydala eds. Cultural Healing and Belief Systems. Calgary:Detselig. 94-110.. (2007)
  • Local medicines and global pharmaceuticals in Northern Ghana. . Mather, Charles and Shanna Sunley. In Korbla Puplaampu and Wisdom Tettey eds. Public Sphere and The Politics of Survival. Woeli: Accra.. 142-160. (2010)
  • From Bank to Bench to Pharmacy Shelf: Biotechnology and the Culture of Finance.. Fleising, Usher and Charles Mather. In Edna Einsiedel and Frank Timmermans eds. Crossing Over: Genomics in the Public Arena. University of Calgary Press, Calgary. . 33-46.. (2005)
  • Kusasi Ancestor Shrines as Historical and Social Maps. . Mather, Charles. Proceedings of “The Entangled Past: The 1997 Chacmool Conference”. University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada. . 136-143.. (2000)
  • Review of Making History in Banda by Ann Stahl.. Mather, Charles. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 10(3): 708-709.. (2004)