Senior university lecturer in the area of Archaeology and researcher at the UA Institute for Archaeology and Heritage Research (INAPH). She has been a PhD assistant lecturer, a distinguished researcher under the University of Alicante’s TALENTO Programme and a doctoral researcher within the Spanish Ministry of the Economy, Industry and Competitiveness’ Juan de la Cierva research Programme. Between 2012 and 2016 she was a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Padua (UNIPD) in Italy, first with a postdoctoral mobility contract from the Spanish Ministry of Education (2012-2014) and, after that, as a researcher on the MEMOLA FP7 European project (MEditerranean MOntainous LAndscapes) and as an assegnista di ricerca senior, developing the Land&Rivers project. She has two six-year research activity periods. Julia Sarabia belongs to the INAPH-affiliated Research Group in Archaeology and Historical Heritage, where she pursues a line of research on the organisation and transformation of archaeological landscapes on the Iberian Peninsula and northern Italy since Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages. Also in relation to this line of research, she coordinates different archaeological projects, such as those in the agrarian landscapes of the Colli Euganei in Padua, the excavations of the Roman villa of Balazote or the late ancient village of Loma Eugenia (both in Albacete province), or the Roman domus of La Alcudia in Elche, Alicante province. Her fieldwork also includes surveys in Banyeres de Mariola or L'Orxa, Alicante province.
An expert in Late Antiquity and archaeological landscapes, she has taken part as a researcher in national and international projects like “Innovative Research on Alpe-Adria Historical Landscapes” (IrAAhl, UNIPD), “Diachronic Archaeological Landscapes on Rab Island (Croatia)” (University of Zagreb) or the ERASMUS+ project “Integrated Methodologies for Historical Landscape Recording: Participatory Approaches”.
She has conducted research stays for a total of 61 months, visiting centres in Italy (Spanish School of History and Archaeology in Rome-CSIC; La Sapienza University of Rome; University of Padua), Turkey (Istanbul’s German Archaeological Institute), Germany (University of Hamburg) and the United States (Boston University). For these stays she received funding under competitive programmes, like the Spanish Ministry of Education’s Postdoctoral Mobility Programme (2012-2014) or the Valencia Region Government’s BEST Programme (two grants in 2019 and 2023).
She has more than 1,600 hours taught on the Undergraduate Degree in History, the Master’s Degree in Cultural Tourism and the Master’s Degree in Professional Archaeology and Comprehensive Heritage Management, of which she has been academic coordinator since 2019. She serves as mobility coordinator of the UA undergraduate degrees in History and Humanities. Julia Sarabia is currently co-directing two doctoral theses and works as a peer reviewer for scientific journals such as Zephyrus, Journal of Post-Classical Archaeologies, Arqueología y Territorio Medieval or Pyrenae among others. Editorial board member of two journals: Archivo Español de Arqueología (CSIC) and Lucentum (UA). She has been an evaluator of excellent research projects and contracts for the Italian Ministry of Education (MIUR), the Spanish National Agency for Prospective Planning and Assessment (ANEP) and the European Research Council (H2020-MSCA Programme).