Julia Hintlian is a doctoral student in the History of Christianity. She takes a comparative approach to late ancient Christian traditions in the religiously diverse context of the Silk Road, and she has a particular interest in questions of free will and fatalism. Her primary research languages include Armenian, Syriac, Greek, and Arabic. She also holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Pennsylvania in Religious Studies and a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School as a Dean’s Fellow in Silk Road Religions.