Markéta Votoupalová Elected At-Large Member in the ISA’s Human Rights Section

Markéta Votoupalová, Assistant Professor at the Department of International and Diplomatic Studies, was elected At-Large Member in the 2026 International Studies Association’s Human Rights Section election.

Markéta Votoupalová studied International Relations and Diplomacy at the Prague University of Economics and Business and Czech-German Intercultural Communication and Scandinavian Studies with a focus on Danish at Charles University. At the DIDS, she teaches courses on migration in international relations, the EU as an actor, ethics, climate policy, and contemporary international relations. Her research interests include discourse analysis, the Schengen Area, asylum policy, energy, state sovereignty, the concept of borders, crises, and solidarity. As a principal investigator, she has successfully secured three grants from the Czech Science Foundation (GAČR) focused on energy policy. She has published in a number of impact-factored and Scopus-indexed journals (JIRD, Politics and Governance, Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, Journal of Borderlands Studies, New Perspectives, CEJISS, Mezinárodní vztahy, Czech Journal of Political Science, Politics in Central Europe). In the past, she worked for a number of non-profit organisations, the Ministry of the Interior, and the Ministry of Justice (Probation and Mediation Service).

Representing 100 countries, ISA has over 6,500 members worldwide and is the most respected and widely known scholarly association in this field. Endeavouring to create communities of scholars dedicated to international studies, ISA is divided into 7 geographic subdivisions of ISA (Regions), 30 thematic groups (Sections) and 5 Caucuses, which provide opportunities to exchange ideas and research with local colleagues and within specific subject areas.