Meet the Team:
Roger Strauch, Mosse Foundation
Roger Strauch is Chairman of The Roda Group, a seed stage venture capital company he co-founded in 1997 with Dan Miller. The firm is focused on investment opportunities that address the consequences of climate change, stress on the Earth’s natural resources and the increased demand for low carbon energy. Roger was Chairman of the Board of Directors of Cool Systems, (recently sold to Avanos Medical Inc., NYSE: AVNS). He was the first CEO of Ask Jeeves (now Ask.com) and served as CEO of public companies, Symmetricom, and TCSI Corp. He recently retired as Chairman of the Board of the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute (Berkeley, California). He is a member of the Engineering Dean’s College Advisory Board of the University of California at Berkeley and is an active philanthropist in academia, theatrical arts and chairs a family foundation which supports humanitarian projects. Roger leads the Mosse Art Restitution Project, one of the world’s largest efforts to restitute Nazi expropriated artifacts. Roger received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering, with distinction, from Cornell University and his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering from Stanford University.
Hans Strauch, Mosse Foundation
Hans D. Strauch is an international architect with award winning buildings located in the United States and Europe. His firm, HDS Architecture, is based in Cambridge, MA. Hans leads a distinguished team of architects, designers, illustrators and technology specialists. His building designs include multifamily communities, mixed-use urban complexes, luxury estates, retail destinations and corporate office buildings. His work has been featured in World Architecture, New York Times, Boston Globe, Architecture Boston, Urban Land, Irish Times, Boston Business Journal, and the Berliner Morgenpost. Hans is Chair of the Board of Trustees at Lesley University, New England’s largest educator of teachers and mental health professionals- and leader in arts education. At Lesley, the Strauch-Mosse Visiting Artist Lecture Series brings world-renowned artists to campus. The series serves as a catalyst for artistic and cultural inquiry. Hans has been an invited lecturer and critic at Brandeis University, Cornell University, Rhode Island School of Design and Harvard University.
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.
Announcements
Mosse Family:
- LISTEN: Exile Podcast, “The Missing Maidens,” narrated by Mandy Patinkin and featuring Roger Strauch.
- LISTEN: Exile Podcast, “The Heiress who Helped End School Segregation,” narrated by Mandy Patinkin and featuring Roger Strauch.
- WATCH: Roger Strauch, “The Mosse Art Restitution Project: A Personal Perspective.”
- WATCH: Hans Strauch, “Rising from the Ashes: Building on Restituted Family Property in Post-Nazi Berlin, Germany.”
- WATCH: Dennis Doyle, Martin Summers, “Color on My Mind: The History of the First Black Mental Health Clinic in America”
- WATCH: Jost Hermand, “Fall of an Empire: Fate of Rudolf Mosse’s Art Collection”
- READ: Medaon put out an article by Dieter Langewiesche, “Bildungsliberalismus und deutsches Judentum. Historische Reflexionen auf den Spuren von George L. Mosse.”
- READ: Smithsonian Magazine published a long article on the Mosse Art Restitution project, “The Lost Maidens of Berlin.”
- Learn about the Collected Works of George L. Mosse publications.
- READ: Torsten Fluh’s “Von der Fiktionalität der Epidemie” on Night Out@Berlin.