Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg
lena.regetz@archaeologie.uni-freiburg.de
I am an assistant lecturer and PhD student at the Department of Provinzialrömische Archäologie at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg (southern Germany). My research focuses on Roman civil settlements along the Rhine frontier, especially in the Upper Rhine region. Especially Roman pottery (e.g. Samian ware) and the reconstruction of Roman architecture are of special interest to me. At the university, I’m responsible for the introductory seminar on Roman provincial archaeology, as well as seminars on various topics. This semester, for example, we are studying the reconstruction of Roman civil architecture. During the last semester I initiated a collaboration with a fellow archaeologist (Kathrin Lieb M.A. from the Stadtmuseum Lahr) to teach students the ins and outs of working in a museum and how to best present archaeological artefacts in this context. During this seminar we developed a small exhibition for a local museum called ‘At home with the Romans’. Although my work at the university is keeping me quite busy, I’m currently finishing my doctoral thesis on the Roman settlement of Riegel am Kaiserstuhl (near Freiburg on the Upper Rhine). The thesis involves the investigation of four Roman houses in the north-eastern quarter of the vicus. If you are curious to know more about my project, you can find an excerpt here:
L. K. Regetz, Ein Blick nach Riegel am Kaiserstuhl: ein und dasselbe Konstruktionsprinzip der Häuser in beiden Siedlungen? In: G. Kuhnle (Hrsg.) Hinterhöfe und Marktplatz? Römische Funde aus der Grabung „Leopoldstraße“ im Vicus von Lahr-Dinglingen, Archäologische Informationen aus Baden-Württemberg 84, 2021, 167-173.
Networking and collaboration are key in modern archaeology and I’m very excited to see this community unfold.