Nelly Van Doorn-Harder

Nelly van Doorn-Harder holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the Vrije University Amsterdam and is a professor of religion at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She started studying Coptic Orthodox Christians during the 1980s while working in Egypt as the director of a refugee project. Van Doorn-Harder is the author of Contemporary Coptic Nuns , published by the University of South Carolina Press, and co-author of The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy with Magdi Guirguis . Via the...See more

Nelly van Doorn-Harder holds a Ph.D. in religious studies from the Vrije University Amsterdam and is a professor of religion at Wake Forest University in North Carolina. She started studying Coptic Orthodox Christians during the 1980s while working in Egypt as the director of a refugee project. Van Doorn-Harder is the author of Contemporary Coptic Nuns , published by the University of South Carolina Press, and co-author of The Emergence of the Modern Coptic Papacy with Magdi Guirguis . Via the website Desert Lights Collective, she continues to post blogs and articles on the Christians of Egypt. See less