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Cheryl Mattingly

Dr. Cheryl Mattingly, PhD, is Professor in the Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy and Department of Anthropology at USC, and is a faculty member of the Health, Humanity and Culture Research Center at the University of Aarhus, Denmark. She is Co-Principal Investigator on the Boundary Crossings project, a longitudinal NICHD/NCMRR-funded ethnography of African-American children with special needs, their caregivers, and health care practitioners. She has served on the editorial boards of the Scandinavian Journal of OT and Medical Anthropology Quarterly, was appointed to the Research Study Committee, Maternal and Child Health, U.S. DHHS, and is a member of the Academy of Research of the American Occupational Therapy Association.

Positions & Honors

Positions
2004-present Professor, Department of Anthropology (Secondary Appointment: Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy), University of Southern California
2000-2004 Professor, Division of Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy (Secondary Appointment: Department of Anthropology), University of Southern California
2000-present Intl. Faculty, Health, Humanity and Culture Research Center, Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
1999 Visiting Professor, Health, Humanity and Culture Research Center, Philosophy, University of Aarhus, Denmark
1996-2000 Associate Professor, Joint Appt., Anthropology and Occupational Science & Occupational Therapy, University of Southern California
1995 Visiting Associate Professor, University of Sydney, Australia
1994-1996 Associate Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Occupational Therapy
1988-1994 Assistant Professor, University of Illinois at Chicago, Occupational Therapy

Selected Honors & Awards
2006-present Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry - Editorial Board
2002-present Medical Anthropology Quarterly - Editorial Board
2000 Victor Turner Prize for Healing Dramas and Clinical Plots: The Narrative Structure of Experience. Society for Humanistic Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
1999-present Academy of Research, American Occupational Therapy Association
1999 Polar Prize for In search of the good: Narrative reasoning in clinical practice. Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association
1998-present Scandinavian Journal of Occupational Therapy - Editorial Board
1998 Appointment, Research Study Committee, Maternal and Child Health, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Education

Dept. of Social Medicine, Harvard University NIMH Fellow 1990-1992 Clinically Relevant Anthropology
Massachusetts Institute of Technology Ph.D. 1989 Anthro/Urban Studies
Atlantic Union College, Lancaster, MA B.A. 1973 English Literature

Current Research Support

2-R01HD38878-06, Lawlor (PI), 2005 - 2009
NIH: NCMRR, NICHD; $2,472,155
Boundary Crossing: Re-Situating Cultural Competence
This 4 year longitudinal, urban, multimethod ethnographic study examines cross cultural healthcare encounters. The study identifies, describes and situates how families contribute to the production of culturally responsive care and the strategies families and practitioners employ to establish commonality, bridge difference, and effectively "partner up."
Role: Co-Principal Investigator

Selected Publications

  1. Mattingly, C. The Politics of Hope: Narrative Constructions of a Clinical Borderland. (Under Review, University of California Press).
  2. Jensen, U., & Mattingly, C. (Eds.). (In-Press). Narrative, self and social practice. Aarhus, Denmark: University of Aarhus Press.
  3. Mattingly, C. (In Press). Moral Willing as Narrative Re-envisioning. In Murphy, K and Throop, J. (Eds.) Toward an Anthropology of the Will. Society for Psychological Anthropology Book Series. Hampshire, U.K.: Palgrave Macmillan.
  4. Mattingly, C. (2008). Stories That Are Ready to Break In Lars-Christer Hyden and Jens Brockmeier (Eds.) Health, Illness and Culture: Broken Narratives. (pp. 73-98). Taylor and Francis: Routledge.
  5. Mattingly, C., Lutkehaus, N & Throop, J. (2008). Bruner’s Search for Meaning: A Conversation between Psychology and Anthropology. Special Issue: Troubling the Boundary Between Psychology and Anthropology: Jerome Bruner and his Inspiration. Ethos,36(1): 1-28.
  6. Mattingly, C. (2008). Reading Minds and Telling Tales in a Cultural Borderland. Special Issue: Troubling the Boundary Between Psychology and Anthropology. Ethos, 36(1): 136-154.
  7. Mattingly, C. (2007). Acted Narratives: From Storytelling to Emergent Dramas. J. Clandinin (Ed.) Handbook of Narrative Inquiry Methodologies. Thousands Oaks: Sage Publications.
  8. Mattingly, C. (2006). Pocahontas Goes to the Clinic: Popular Culture as Lingua Franca in a Cultural Borderland. American Anthropologist, 108(3), 494-501.
  9. Mattingly, C. (2006). Suffering and Narrative Re-envisioning. Hedgehog Review: Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture. 8(3): 21-35.
  10. Mattingly, C. (2006). Reading Medicine: Mind, Body, and Meditation in One Interpretive Community. New Literary History. 37(3): 563-581.