Beáta Huszka

Postdoctoral Researcher

Centre for Socio-Legal Studies

Biography

Biography

Beata is a Research Fellow at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies (CSLS), Law Faculty, working in the HuRiEE project focusing on Romania and Hungary. Previously, she was based at UCL SSEES involved in the same project (from February 2023). She completed her PhD at the Central European University (CEU) in Budapest in 2010 and worked as an associate professor at Eötvös Loránd University (ELTE) faculty of social sciences in Budapest. She was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Fellow at ELIAMEP, Athens, Greece (2019-2021) and a visiting researcher at ECFR focusing on policy issues in Southeast Europe (2020-2022).

Research projects

Dr Huszka's MSCA research 'Assessing the agency of national minorities through court cases: mapping legal mobilization patterns in CEE' analysed the state of minority rights through the lens of litigation and legal mobilization in Romania and Hungary. From 2013 to 2017, Beata led a work package of the EU’s FP7 project FRAME at ELTE, coordinated by Leuven Centre for Global Governance Studies, researching the role of human rights in the EU’s external relations. She has extensive research experience on minority issues in Central Eastern Europe and the Balkans, including academic and policy research. She was a visiting researcher at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2007), the European University Institute (2006), the Centre for European Policy Studies (2007), the New Europe College in Bucharest (2014-2015) and held an International Policy Fellowship at the Open Society Institute (2006-2007).

Publications

Dr Huszka is the author of the book Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict (Routledge, 2014), and her articles appeared in journals such as the Europe-Asia Studies, Journal of Common Market Studies (JCMS), Nationalism and Ethnic Politics, Nations and Nationalism and the Southeast European and Black Sea Studies.

Publications

Journal Article (8)

Huszka B, ‘Restitutio Interruptus: Minority Churches, Property Rights and Europeanisation in Romania’ (2023) 75(9) Europe Asia Studies 1453

Huszka B, ‘Minorities as citizens: The legal advocacy of language rights by the Hungarian minority in Romania’ (2022) 28(4) Nations and Nationalism 1340

Huszka B, ‘Human Rights on the Losing end of EU Enlargement: The Case of Serbia’ (2018) 56(2) JCMS Journal of Common Market Studies 352

Huszka B, ‘Eurosceptic yet pro-enlargement: the paradoxes of Hungary’s EU policy’ (2017) 17(4) Journal of Southeast European and Black Sea Studies 591

Huszka B and Körtvélyesi Z, ‘Human Rights in the EU’s Conditionality Policy Towards Enlargement Countries in the Western Balkans’ (2017) 3(2) Intersections

Huszka B and Körtvélyesi Z, ‘Conditional Changes: Europeanization in the Western Balkans and the Example of Media Freedom’ (2017) 3(2) Intersections

Huszka B, ‘Framing National Identity in Independence Campaigns: Secessionist Rhetoric and Ethnic Conflict’ (2014) 20(2) Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 153

Huszka B, ‘Voivodina’s autonomy and its minority protection dimension’ (2008) 22(1-2) Hungarian Studies 135

Huszka B, Secessionist Movements and Ethnic Conflict, Debate-framing and rhetoric in independence campaigns (Taylor & Francis 2013)

Huszka B, ‘The Benefits of Frame Analysis to Understanding Yugoslavia and Beyond’, Researching Yugoslavia and its Aftermath (Springer Nature 2021)

Huszka B, ‘Eurosceptic yet pro-enlargement: the paradoxes of Hungary’s EU policy’ in J Ker-Lindsay and others (eds.), The National Politics of EU Enlargement in the Western Balkans (Routledge 2020)

Huszka B and Körtvélyesi Z, ‘EU Enlargement Policy and Human Rights’ in J Wouters and others (eds.), The European Union and Human Rights: Law and Policy (Oxford University Press 2020)

Huszka B and Jenne E, ‘The Importance of Being Balanced: Lessons from Negotiated Settlements to Self-determination Movements in Bosnia, Macedonia and Kosovo’ in JB Alterman and W Todman (eds.), Independence movements and their aftermath: self-determination and the struggle for success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018)

Huszka B, ‘The EU’s Changing Conditionality on Anti-Discrimination in Bosnia and Herzegovina’ in W Benedek (ed.), European Yearbook of Human Rights (2017)

Internet publication or blog post (4)

Huszka B and Körtvélyesi Z, ‘Op-Ed: “The Impact of Enlargement on Human Rights in the EU: Disentangling negative Trends”’ (EULawLive, 1 January 2024)

Huszka B, ‘Romania’s ‘Hungarian Problem’: A Minority Caught between Integration and Self-Segregation.’ (LSE Blog. EUROPP European Politics and Policy, 1 January 2021)

Huszka B, ‘Assessing the EU enlargement process and the dismal state of media freedom in the Balkan candidate states’ (LSE EUROPP Blog, 1 January 2018)

Huszka B, ‘A high risk, high reward gamble: What are the benefits of a Kosovo-Serbia land-swap?’ (LSE EUROPP Blog, 1 January 2017)

Huszka B, Fraczek S and Körtvélyesi Z, ‘The role of human rights in the EU’s external action in the Western Balkans and Turkey’ (2016)