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Adam Hosein

Associate Professor of Philosophy & Director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program

Northeastern University


Adam Hosein is Associate Professor of Philosophy, Director of the Politics, Philosophy, and Economics Program, and Affiliate Professor of Law at Northeastern. He is currently a fellow with CLEAR (Center for Law, Equity, and Race) and works closely with the Center on Crime, Race, and Justice, especially on issues around policing and public safety. Prof. Hosein’s research is mainly in moral, political, and legal philosophy, with a special interest in areas of international concern and issues relating to race or gender. Before coming to Northeastern, Prof. Hosein was an Associate Prof. at the University of Colorado, Boulder. He has held fellowships and visiting positions at Chicago Law, Harvard Philosophy, the Harvard Safra Center for Ethics, the Munk School of Global Affairs at the University of Toronto, and the Université Catholique de Louvain. He holds a BA in philosophy, politics, and economics from Merton College, Oxford and a PhD from MIT. He recently published The Ethics of Migration: An Introduction (Routledge, 2019) and is currently
working on a book about discrimination, including anti-discrimination law, entitled Discrimination, Inclusion, and Social Progress (under contract with Oxford University Press).