Seth Lunine

Seth Lunine is a Lecturer in the Department of Geography at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on urban and economic geography, with particular emphasis on historical transformations of cities, industrialization, and contemporary issues like gentrification, displacement, and homelessness in the San Francisco Bay Area and broader American West. Combining critical environmental and racial geographies, he explores the intersections of power, race, and class in urban contexts.

• Ph.D. in Geography, UC Berkeley (2013)
• Teaches courses on California (GEOG 50AC), urban experiences (GEOG 70AC), Bay Area studies (GEOG 72AC), and fieldwork methodologies (GEOG 181, 182)
• Active in the American Cultures Engaged Scholarship Program (ACES), collaborating with community organizations on urban equity projects

His current book manuscript, Sin Suburb: Manufacturing Vice in Emeryville and the San Francisco Bay Area, extends his historical analysis of industrialization’s role in metropolitan growth and cultural politics. New projects examine the late-19th-century high explosives sector and specialized Bay Area corporations as catalysts for U.S. economic expansion.