Lucy Parker is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of Nottingham. She joined the University of Nottingham in 2023, after seven years working at the University of Oxford, where she also completed her doctorate in 2016. Her first book, Symeon Stylites the Younger and Late Antique Antioch: From Hagiography to History, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022. As well as Byzantine hagiography, she also works on Syriac and Eastern Christianity in the Early Modern period.