F. LaMond Tullis
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Floyd LaMond Tullis (born 1935) has been a professor of political science and Associate Academic Vice President at Brigham Young University (BYU). He is a specialist in Latin American Studies and has written multiple works on the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Latin America, especially Mexico.
Tullis received his master's degree in political science from Brigham Young University. Tullis has a doctorate in political science earned at Harvard University. He has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics and the Institute of Developmental Studies.
Among the books written by Tullis are Lord and Peasant in Peru, Politics and Social Change in Third World Countries, Mormons in Mexico, The Church Moves Outside the United States: Some Observations from South America, Modernization in Brazil and Handbook of research on the illicit drug trade. Tullis was also the general editor of Mormonism: A Faith For All Cultures. Tullis has also written multiple articles published in BYU Studies related to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Latin America.
Tullis is a believing Latter-day Saint.