Phone: 828-227-3659
Email: kmathews at email dot wcu dot edu
Office Address: Natural Science Building 128

Education:

• Ph.D. University of Texas at Austin, 1997
• B.A. Harvard University, 1992

• Mathews, K, N. Dunne, E. York, and L. Struwe. A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Bartonia (Gentianaceae-Gentianeae), based on molecular and morphological evidence. In review.
• Struwe, L., Victor A. Albert, M. Fernanda Calió, Cynthia Frasier, Katherine B. Lepis, Katherine G. Mathews, & Jason R. Grant. 2007. Evolutionary patterns in neotropical Helieae (Gentianaceae): evidence from morphology, chloroplast and nuclear DNA sequences. Taxon (accepted pending revision).
• Gould, K. R. and L. Struwe. Phylogeny and evolution of Symbolanthus. 2004. (Gentianaceae-Helieae) in the Guayana Highlands and Andes, based on ribosomal 5S-NTS sequences. Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden 91: 438-446.
• Struwe, L. and K. R. Gould.  2004. Redefinition of Symbolanthus to include Wurdackanthus (Gentianaceae--Helieae). Novon 14: 354-359.
• Gould, K. R. and M. J. Donoghue. 2000.  Phylogeny and biogeography of Triosteum (Caprifoliaceae). Harvard Papers in Botany 5: 157-166.
• Gould, K. R. and R. K. Jansen. 1999. Taxonomy, phylogeny, and the origin of a Gulf Coast disjunction in the Coelostylis species complex of Spigelia. Lundellia 2: 1-13.
• Gould, K. R. 1999. Three new species of Spigelia (Strychnaceae) from Mexico. Brittonia 51: 407-414.
• Gould, K. 1996. A New, Disjunct Variety of Spigelia gentianoides from Bibb Co., Alabama. Sida 17: 417-421.

Presentations and Posters:

• Mathews, K.G. 2007. Systematics and biogeography of Sabatia (Gentianaceae). Invited talk for the Albert E. Radford Symposium, Association of Southeastern Biologists meetings, Columbia, SC.
• Mathews, K.G. and E. York. 2007. Phylogeny of Bartonia (Gentianaceae) based on nuclear ribosomal and chloroplast non-coding DNA sequences. Botanical Society of America meetings, Chicago, IL.
• York, E. and K.G. Mathews. 2006. Phylogenetic relationships in Bartonia (Gentianaceae). NCUR meetings, Asheville, NC.
• Mathews, K.G. 2004. Systematics of Sabatia, paper presented at Botany 2004, the   annual meetings of the Botanical Society of America, Snowbird, Utah.
• Gould, K. R. Using phylogeny to discover convergent evolution and morphological stasis in geographically disjunct plant groups. Invited lecture, Western Kentucky University, Feb. 2002; APSU Biology Department and Center for Field Biology Undergraduate Honors Seminar Program. Feb. 2002.
• Struwe, L., Grant, J. R. and Gould, K. R. Coronas and curved stamens: shape, size and color in the floral evolution of tribe Helieae (Gentianaceae; Asteridae). Deep Morphology symposium, International Association for Plant Taxonomy, University of Vienna, Oct. 2001.
• Gould, K. R. and M. C. Tebbitt. Morphological variation in Helianthemum dumosum (Cistaceae), a rare coastal heathland taxon, and its widespread relative, H. canadense.  Botany 2000 meetings, Portland, OR.
• Gould, K. R. Plant distribution patterns in the New York Metro Region.  XVI International Botanical Congress, St. Louis, MO, Aug.1999.
• Gould, K. R. and M. J. Donoghue. Phylogeny and biogeography of Triosteum (Dipsacales). AIBS meetings, Baltimore, MD, Aug.1998.
• Gould, K. R. and R. K. Jansen. Systematics and origins of temperate diversity in Spigelia: a study using ITS sequence data.  AIBS meetings, Seattle, WA, Aug. 1996.