Yuliya Minets studies intellectual and social processes in Late Antiquity with special attention to the history of early Christianity, the relationship between its different branches, and their connections with traditional Greco-Roman culture, Rabbinic Judaism, and later with Islam. She received her BA and MA in history from the National University of “Kyiv-Mohyla Academy” and MA in Medieval studies from the Central European University. Her first dissertation, supported by the Dumbarton Oaks Fellowship, analyzed the narrative strategies that Palladius of Helenopolis, an important early Christian writer, employed in his works, the Dialogue on John Chrysostom and the Lausiac History; it used reader-response criticism in order to explain why one author could produce two such disparate compositions. After she received a degree of Candidate in History (Kyiv, 2011), the PhD program at the Catholic University of America became an opportunity to expand the vision of Christianity through the study of the Syriac and Coptic languages. This raised her interests in problems of multilingualism and language contacts in the past and brought her to the current project.