Lélia Roche

Lélia Roche is a PhD student in History at Columbia University, where she studies International and Global History as a Richard Hofstadter Fellow. Her research explores the history of policy planning and forecasting during the Cold War and post-Cold War periods. More specifically, she studies the elaboration, circulation, and competition of West European and American visions of the future of the international system during the 1980s and 1990s. Prior to starting her PhD at Columbia, Lélia completed an M.A. in History (cum laude) and a B.A. in Politics and Government (summa cum laude) at Sciences Po Paris. She also studied history and international relations at the London School of Economics. Lélia’s contributions to research include co-organizing Columbia University’s “International History Workshop” and serving as a Research Assistant at Columbia’s “History Lab.” Her work has or will be published in the Revue d’histoire diplomatique and Cold War History, and has been supported by the Scowcroft Institute of International Affairs and the Transatlantic Studies Association.