Nathan Huff

Nathan Huff is a part-time lecturer in the psychology department at Gonzaga University and a research methodology consultant for two nonprofit organizations (Community Solutions; Center for Research on Families). He received his Ph.D. in social psychology from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst in 2024 and B.A.s with honors in psychology and political science from Gonzaga University in 2018.

Dr. Huff’s research centers broadly on stigma towards individuals with mental health conditions. Some of his recent work has explored the influence of emotions on our perceptions, evaluations, and behaviors towards patients with schizophrenia (Huff et al., 2023), interpersonal and contextual effects on emergency department safety and care quality for patients with co-morbid mental health conditions (Huff et al., 2023; Isbell et al., 2023), improving our measurement of stigma towards mental illness (Huff et al., 2025), and understanding stigma's impact on help-seeking among young people (Huff et al., 2024).

Dr. Huff has expertise teaching and publishing with a range of methodologies, including scale development (CFA), multi-level modeling, complex survey data analysis, systematic review, moderated mediation, and qualitative methods. He has professional experience conducting program evaluations and drafting annual reports for non-academic audiences.