Rate My Professor Amade M’charek

M'charek is principal investigator of major projects, including the ERC Consolidator grant-funded RaceFaceID (2014) on forensic identification, race, and facial recognition; the ERC Advanced grant for Vital Elements and Postcolonial Moves: Forensics as the Art of Paying Attention in a Mediterranean Harbour Town (2022); and co-PI of the NWA project Pressing Matter: Ownership, Value and the Question of Colonial Heritage in Museums. Her seminal book, 'The Human Genome Diversity Project: An Ethnography of Scientific Practice' (Cambridge University Press, 2005), explores scientific practices shaping social categories like race and population. Other key works include co-edited volumes such as 'Forensic DNA Profiling Across the Globe: Exploring Practices and Politics of Technolegal Worlds' (Routledge, 2023), and special issues in journals like Social Studies of Science (2023, 'The Politics of Face and the Trouble with Race'), BioSocieties (2021 and 2020), and American Anthropologist (2020). She has received ERC grants, was elected member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) in 2022 and the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities (KHMW), and holds the Marion R. & Adolph J. Lichtstern Distinguished Research Scholar in Residence position at the University of Chicago in 2025. M'charek supervises PhD students, organizes workshops, and delivers invited lectures on forensics, race, and genetics.