After graduating, Sebo took a postdoc at New York University (NYU) in animal and environmental studies until 2014, when he took up a one-year postdoctoral position in bioethics with the National Institutes of Health. From 2015 to 2017, Sebo worked as a researchassistant professor of philosophy at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where he was the associate director of the Parr Center for Ethics at the university. He returned to NYU in 2017 as a clinical assistant professor in environmental studies, with affiliate roles in bioethics, medical ethics, and philosophy. He directs the university's animal studies MA programme.[6]
In 2018, Sebo co-authored Food, Animals and the Environment: An Ethical Approach, a book devoted to food ethics, with Christopher Schlottmann.[8] In the same year, Sebo was among those filing an amicus brief in support of granting legal personhood to chimpanzees.[9][10]Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosopher's Brief was published by Routledge in 2018; Sebo was one of 13 authors, along with Kristin Andrews, Gary L Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler M. John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert C. Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, and David Pena-Guzman.[10]
In 2020, Sebo was promoted to clinical associate professor.[6] His first sole-authored book, Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves, was published by Oxford University Press in 2022.[11][12] In 2024, Sebo, along with Jonathan Birch and Kristin Andrews, launched the New York Declaration on Animal Consciousness.[13] His second sole-authored book, The Moral Circle: Who Matters, What Matters, and Why, is forthcoming, published by Norton.[14]
Sebo, Jeff (2022). Saving Animals, Saving Ourselves. Oxford: Oxford University Press. ISBN978-0-19-086101-8.
Andrews, Kristin; Comstock, Gary L; Crozier, G.K.D.; Donaldson, Sue; Fenton, Andrew; John, Tyler M; Johnson, L. Syd M; Jones, Robert C; Kymlicka, Will; Meynell, Letitia; Nobis, Nathan; Pena-Guzman, David; Sebo, Jeff (2018). Chimpanzee Rights: The Philosophers' Brief(PDF). Kristin Andrews, Gary Comstock, G. K. D. Crozier, Sue Donaldson, Andrew Fenton, Tyler John, L. Syd M. Johnson, Robert Jones, Will Kymlicka, Letitia Meynell, Nathan Nobis, David M. Pena-Guzman. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN978-1-138-61866-4.
Schlottmann, Christopher; Sebo, Jeff (2018). Food, Animals and the Environment: An Ethical Approach. Abingdon: Routledge. ISBN978-1-138-80112-7.
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