Dr. Adrien Sebro is an assistant professor of media studies at the University of Texas at Austin. He specializes in critical media studies at the intersections of race, socioeconomics, gender, performance, and Black popular culture. His first book, Scratchin’ and Survivin’: Hustle Economics and the Black Sitcoms of Tandem Productions, which explores a production history of Black economics in the all-Black cast sitcoms of Tandem Productions: Sanford and Son (1972-1977), Good Times (1974-1979), and The Jeffersons (1975-1985, will be released in the Fall of 2023 through Rutgers University Press. Dr. Sebro is also a Faculty Affiliate with the Department of African and African Diaspora Studies.
