Education

• Ph.D., Lifespan Developmental Psychology, West Virginia University, 2011
• Graduate Certificate in University Education, West Virginia University, 2011

Research Interest

Dr. Nadorff directs the Grandfamilies Lab and leads a broader program of research focused on populations the existing service system tends to miss. Her work spans three lines: rural Southerners navigating health care access, custodial grandfamilies and kinship caregivers, and older adults affected by substance use and recovery. She is the incoming Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Aging and Human Development and co-convenes the Grandparents Raising Grandchildren Interest Group of the Gerontological Society of America. Her work includes the 2025 paper "Down the Digital Delta: Health Information Inequities Among Rural Mississippi Caregivers," published in Healthcare, which documents gaps in how rural Mississippi caregivers access evidence-based health information and identifies where digital and telehealth interventions might fill those gaps, and her recent funded work includes Mississippi Blues: A Statewide Needs Assessment, the state's first unified, evidence-based assessment of opioid prevention, treatment, and recovery needs. Funded by the State of Mississippi Opioid Settlement Fund, the project is conducted in partnership with the Wolfgang Frese Survey Research Laboratory and the Mississippi Department of Mental Health.

For full details, including current lab members, recent publications, teaching, and service, visit her faculty page at faculty.msstate.edu/dkn34.

Undergraduate Research Assistants

The Grandfamilies Lab welcomes undergraduate research assistants. We look for students with a 3.5+ overall GPA who can commit a minimum of two semesters and complete three lab hours per week per credit of PSY 4000. Interested students can apply at forms.cloud.microsoft/r/wUzDfZRSB4.