Jeffrey Bussolini

Jeffrey Bussolini was educated at Georgetown University, CUNY Graduate Center, the Sorbonne (Université de Paris I) and the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and is a sociologist, philosopher, and historian of technology by training. Bussolini's areas of inquiry are: ailourography (etho-ethnography), ethnography of national security institutions, ancient and contemporary philosophy (including pre-Socratics and critical philosophies of violence, war, and state power), and television studies.  Bussolini has conducted ethnographic and historical study of Los Alamos and related nuclear security sites since 1991 and etho-ethnographic study of feline-human interactions since 1995 and has been visiting professor at Macquarie University (CRSI, CISAB) and the University of New South Wales (Environmental Humanities). In recent years, he has focused on editing and translating ethological philosophy from the French and Italian, such as the book Dance of the Arabian Babbler: Birth of an Ethological Theory (written by Vinciane Despret and translated from the French by Jeffrey Bussolini, University of Minnesota Press, 2021) and the three-volume book series – The Philosophical Ethology of Vinciane Despret; The Philosophical Ethology of Roberto Marchesini; and The Philosophical Ethology of Dominique Lestel -- which he co-edited with Brett Buchanan and Matthew Chrulew, Routledge, 2018).