When Junior Professor Catherine Teitz leaves the front door, she steps right into her research field. "I live in Mainz's Kästrich quarter, in the footprint of the Roman legionary camp of Mogontiacum," she says. Even her daily route to the Institute of Ancient Studies leads through traces of the past: on foot she passes the remains of a late Roman city gate and along the course of the aqueduct. Returning to Mainz after fieldwork, she sees the ancient theater on the train. "It was one of the largest north of the Alps—and I feel incredibly lucky that this city is my home."