Svitlana Potapenko (PhD in History 2010, M.S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine) is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department for Act Archeography of M.S. Hrushevsky Institute of Ukrainian Archeography and Source Studies of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine. She explores the early modern history of Ukraine and East Central Europe with a focus on elites, social and juridical practices, and the transition of ideas. Within the POLY Research Project, she examines the literary legacy of the eighteenth-century Ukrainian ecclesiastic intellectuals and their interactions with Western academic and artistic circles.