Inbar Graiver received her PhD in 2017 from the Zvi Yavetz School of Historical Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her dissertation on asceticism and self-transformation in late antiquity was recently published as a book (entitled Asceticism of the Mind: Forms of Attention and Self-Transformation in Late Antiquity) by Toronto University Press. In 2017-2019 she completed a postdoctoral research at Humboldt University, Berlin, and is currently teaching at the History Department at Ben-Gurion University. Her current research is devoted to the late antique and early medieval roots of Western psychology.