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Skye Doney, Mosse Program

Dr. Skye Doney is the director of the George L. Mosse Program in History at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and editor of the Mosse Blog. He is the author of The Persistence of the Sacred: German Catholic Pilgrimage, 1832-1937; co-editor with Darcy Buerkle of Contemporary Europe in the Historical Imagination; editor and translator of Last Days of Theresienstadt. With Donatello Aramini and Laura Ciglioni he co-edited the special issue of the Journal of Contemporary History “George L. Mosse, Nationalism and the Crises of Liberal Democracies” (2021). He is also a series advisor for the George L. Mosse Series in the History of European Culture, Sexuality, and Ideas at the University of Wisconsin Press.

David Harrisville

David Harrisville serves as an Events Specialist for the Mosse Lectures. He received his PhD in History from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2017, where he also held several academic posts.  He has been awarded numerous fellowships, including at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Free University of Berlin.  He served as Visiting Assistant Professor of History at Furman University from 2018-19 and currently works as a Learning Designer at Brown University.  His book, The Virtuous Wehrmacht: Crafting the Myth of the German Soldier on the Eastern Front, 1941-1944 was published in 2021 by Cornell University Press. 

Roger Strauch, Mosse Foundation

Roger Strauch chairs The Roda Group, an early-stage venture capital firm he co-founded with Dan Miller in 1997. Roda invests in people, technologies, and companies that address the consequences of climate change, natural resource contamination or scarcity, and the transition to low-carbon energy. Roger is on the board of Chart Industries, was formerly chair of Cool Systems, CEO and Chair of Ask Jeeves, and CEO and a board member of Symmetricom. Other tech companies Roger and Dan helped develop were sold to HP, Logitech, and American Greetings. He co-founded TCSI Corp with Dan Miller in 1983 and served as its CEO. Prior to TCSI, he was a communications system engineer and project manager for Hughes Aircraft's (now Boeing) Space and Communications Group.

In addition to his business achievements, Roger is deeply involved in supporting academic, artistic, and philanthropic institutions and initiatives. An executive board member of the Tony Award winning Berkeley Repertory Theater for over 20 years, he received the Helen C. Barber Award for serving the theater with unique distinction. For 25 years, Roger was an executive board member of The Mathematics Sciences Research Institute (now SLMath), including service as board chair. He currently serves on the board of trustees of the Northside Center for Child Development in Harlem and UC Berkeley's College of Engineering Advisory Board. Roger is the recipient of the Wheeler Oak Meritorious Award from the University of California, Berkeley, and he and his wife Dr. Julie Kulhanjian were named and honored as “Builders of Berkeley.” He is also the leader of the Mosse Art Research Initiative, a global search for his step-family’s Nazi-looted artifacts, the largest and most successful project of its kind. With his brother Hans, Roger is co-president of the Mosse Foundation, which supports humanitarian, educational, and cultural enhancement initiatives worldwide.

Hans Strauch, Mosse Foundation

Hans D. Strauch is an international architect based in Boston. As founder, principal, and creative director of HDS Architecture, he has spent his professional life designing distinctive buildings and creating new communities worldwide. Today, he leads a distinguished team that crafts sophisticated and highly acclaimed buildings, including large scale residential, commercial, retail destination, and medical facilities, and has completed over $1.5 billion of construction over the last 36 years. Hans designed a 155-unit apartment complex in Boston that won “Best New Construction Community of the Year” from the Massachusetts Apartment Association (MAA) in 2022 and a co-living development in Allston that the MAA named “Best Apartment Project of the Year” in 2024.

In addition to his business activities Hans is actively involved in supporting academic, artistic, and philanthropic institutions and initiatives. For over 25 years, Hans has served on the board of trustees at Lesley University, an institution focused on teacher education, counseling, and the visual arts. He most recently completed his eighth and final year as chair of Lesley’s board of trustees. He also supports several Boston social justice programs, including Habitat for Humanity and The Jewish Coalition for Literacy. Alongside his brother Roger, he endowed the Strauch Visiting Critic in Sustainable Design in 2013 at Cornell’s College of Architecture Art & Planning, their alma mater, to advance research and innovative design solutions associated with consequences of global climate change. In 2023, they endowed the Strauch Early Career Fellow at Cornell to identify, attract, and support diverse, talented, early-career educators who contribute fresh ideas and perspectives. Hans was also named and honored as a “Builder of Berkeley” by the University of California, Berkeley. With Roger, Hans is co-president of the Mosse Foundation, which supports humanitarian, educational, and cultural enhancement initiatives worldwide.