Cherra Mathis
Assistant Professor
Areas of Expertise
- Social Welfare Policy Analysis
Highlighted Publications
- Mathis, C.M., Huslage, M., & Held, M. L. (2026). Traveling together, traveling alone: Experiences of violence and danger for migrating children and families in the US–Mexico borderlands. Social Sciences, 15(1), 23.
- Mathis, C.M., Lehman-Held, M., Latus, K. & Cook Heffron, L. (2025). Clinical social work’s place in migrant justice: A call to act on our ethical commitments. Social Sciences, 14(12), 701.
- Messing, J. T., Lin, H.-F., Wachter, K., Cardenas, I., Suarez, C., Mathis, C. M., Njie-Carr, V. P. S., Sabri, B., & Campbell, J. (2025). The predictive validity of the Danger Assessment for Immigrant Women (DA-I). Violence Against Women, 0(0).
Current Projects
- Assessing Scope & Impact of Mental Health Evaluators in Immigration Legal Proceedings
- Step-Up: A Service-Learning Initiative to Support High School Students and Young Adults from Immigrant and Refugee Families
Student & Research Availability
- Research or Interest Area Key Words: immigration, asylum, human rights, interprofessional collaboration, social work
Alma Mater
Arizona State University
Get to Know Cherra
Cherra M. Mathis, PhD, MSW, is an assistant Professor in the College of Social Work at the University of Kentucky. Dr Mathis is a globally-oriented scholar focused on forced migration and gender violence. She uses qualitative methods to explore advocacy, trauma, stress, and burnout at the intersection of human rights and immigration enforcement.