Mary M. Nelan

Mary Nelan is a member of the Department of Emergency Management and Disaster Science at the University of North Texas. Nelan earned her PhD in sociology at the University of Delaware, where she held the position of research assistant at the Disaster Research Center. Nelan’s interest in disasters began during a response volunteer trip to Haiti in May 2010. It was then that she started to research volunteers in disasters. Her research broadened throughout her career to include disaster donations and therapeutic communities that emerge after disasters.