Amade M’charek

Amade M’charek (University of Amsterdam) is an anthropologist of science whose work explores the entanglements of race, forensics, and postcolonial politics. She is the author of The Human Genome Diversity Project and leads the ERC project Vital Elements, which reconceptualizes forensics as an art of paying attention to the circulations and inequalities embedded in Mediterranean migration. Her research examines how bodies, borders, and biological data become vital sites of intervention in Europe’s racial and colonial regimes. M’charek co-leads Pressing Matter, a national research program on colonial heritage, and teaches at the Department of Anthropology at the University of Amsterdam.