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Waheed Hussain, Wharton

caption: Waheed HussainWaheed Hussain, a former lecturer and assistant professor at the Wharton School and most recently associate professor  of philosophy at the University of Toronto, died on January 31 from causes related to cancer. He was 48.

Dr. Hussain received an AB in philosophy from Princeton in 1995 and a PhD in philosophy from Harvard in 2006. In 2004, he joined Penn’s faculty as an instructor in Wharton’s department of legal studies and business ethics. Two years later, he became an assistant professor in the same department, a position he held until 2014, when he became an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Toronto. Dr. Hussain’s work earned him several honors, including the Laurance S. Rockefeller Visiting Faculty Fellowship at Princeton University from 2013 to 2014. He was also a member of the American Philosophical Association, the American Political Science Association, and the Society for Business Ethics.

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