Ms. Mathews also completed a M.A. in Archival Studies from East Tennessee State University (ETSU). She was awarded the ETSU School of Graduate Studies Capstone Project Excellence award for her museum exhibit "Mining A New Life" and corresponding support paper titled "The Immigrant Experience: Russians in the Coal Camp." The exhibit included photographs and artifacts relating to the Russian community and coal industry in Monongalia County, West Virginia. She presented the support paper at the 2005 Appalachian Studies Association annual conference.

At ETSU, Ms. Mathews worked as both a Graduate Assistant and a Senior Library Specialist in the Archives of Appalachia. While there, she was involved with accessioning of materials, appraisal and acquisition work, developing processing plans, preservation methods for specific media types including paper documents, photographs, audio, and video, conservation for specific types of media, MARC cataloging, authoring finding aids, community outreach programming, and museum exhibit planning.

Ms. Mathews has also volunteered as a Consultant for Appalshop on the preservation, conservation, and transfer of vinyl LP albums.

Ms. Mathews has been an active member of the Society of American Archivists since 2004.

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