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, philosophy of the body, Merleau- Ponty, African philosophy, ethics and public policy, race theory, and Latin American and Caribbean 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 studying Thomas Reid as a critic of the philosophy of David Hume, working on the social and political ideas of the Trinbagonian intellectual, Lloyd Best, and supervising students in the construction of an online archive of Caribbean anti-colonial thought for the College's Center for Caribbean Studies.  He joined the Trinity Philosophy department in 1983 and is a contributing faculty member in the Public Policy and Law Program and International Studies.  Prior to joining the Trinity faculty, he was member of the Philosophy Department and North Carolina State University, from 1980 to 1983. 

• Wade, Maurice L. "Sartre und Fanon (via Merleau-Ponty) ueber Negritude: antischwarzer Rassimus und schwarzer koerperlicher Fluch." In Ueber Sartre: Perspectiven und Kritiken, edited by Thomas R. Flynn, Peter Kampits, and Erik Vogt. Verlag Turia & Kant, 2005.
• Wade, Maurice L. "Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century Scientific Racism." In Race and Racism in Theory and Practice, edited by Berel Lang. Rowman and Littlefield Publishing, 2000.
• Wade, Maurice L. "Sport and Specieism." Journal of the Philosophy of Sport, volume 23 (1996).  Also reprinted in Philosophy of Sport: Critical Readings, Crucial Issues edited by M. Andrew Holowchak, Prentice-Hall, 2002.
• Wade, Maurice L. "A (Somewhat) Communitarian (Partial) Reformulation of Liberalism." In The Ethics of Democracy: Essays on Morality and Democracy in Theory and Practice, edited by Paul Churchill. Berg Publishers, 1994.
• Wade, Maurice L., John Gillroy, eds. The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm. Pittsburgh University Press, 1992.
• Wade, Maurice L., John Gillroy, eds. "Hume's Theory of Justice and the Role of Public Policy." In The Moral Dimensions of Public Policy Choice: Beyond the Market Paradigm, Pittsburgh University Press, 1992.
• Wade, Maurice L., J. Bronzino, and V. Smith. Technology and Society: An Interdisciplinary Perspective. MIT Press, 1990
• Wade, Maurice L. "Rawls and the Minimum Demands of Justice." In The Journal of Value Inquiry, volume 24 (1990).

• Trinity College Faculty Research Grant - 1997
• Grants from the Sloan Foundation and the GTE Foundation (along with Professor Adrienne Fulco) to develop and coordination a year-long lecture series on "Artificial Reproduction and the Family."  -  Fall 1992 - Spring 1993
• Grants from the Sloan Foundation and the GTE Foundation (along with Professor Adrienne Fulco) to develop and coordinate a year-long lecture series on "The New Reproductive Technologies: Ethical and Legal Dilemmas."  - Fall 1991 - Spring 1992
• Visiting Fellow in the Harvard University Department of Philosophy - Fall 1989 - Summer 1990
• Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship for Minorities - Fall  1989 - Summer 1990
• NEH Summer Seminar Stipend - Summer 1988
• Sloan Foundation Grant (with Professors J. Bronzino and V. Smith) to develop and coordinate a year-long lecture series on "Implications of the Computer Revolution."  - Summer 1987 - Spring 1988
• Trinity College Faculty Research Grant - Summer 1988
• Sloan Foundation Grant (with Professors J. Bronzino and V. Smith) to develop prospectus for a book on medicine and technology - Summer 1986
• Sloan Foundation Grant (with Professors J. Bronzino and V. Smith) to develop and coordinate a year-long lecture series on "Medicine and Technology." - Summer 1985 - Spring 1986