Maurice L. Wade graduated from Yale University in 1974 with a B.A. in Philosophy and from Stanford University in 1982 with a Ph.D in Philosophy.  His teaching interests include environmental philosophy, African philosophy, ethics and public policy, race theory, and Latin American philosophy.  He has published on Rawls' theory of justice, philosophy of sport, ethics and medical technology, ethics and public policy, and Frantz Fanon.  He is currently working on a manuscript on medicine, technology, and the body and is attempting, with only minor success, to understand the philosophy of Slavoj Zizek and Alain Badiou and the psychoanalytic theories of Jacques Lacan.  He joined the Trinity Philosophy department in 1983 and is a contributing faculty member in the Public Policy and Law Program and International Studies.