F. LaMond Tullis

Floyd LaMond Tullis (born 1935) was a professor of political science and Associate Academic Vice President at Brigham Young University (BYU) from 1969 to 1998. 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.

As a young man Tullis served as a missionary for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in the Central American Mission. For part of this time he was a counselor in the mission presidency of the mission. In this position he created a translation of the Melchizedek priesthood handbook into Spanish for use throughout the mission.

Tullis began his undergraduate education at the University of Utah. He later transferred to BYU where he earned a bachelor's degree in Spanish. Tullis received his master's degree in political science from Brigham Young University. He also did graduate studies at Cornell University and earned a master's of public administration degree. Tullis has a doctorate in political science earned at Harvard University. He spent a year teaching at Arizona State University before he joined the BYU faculty. He has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, and the University of Sussex from 1983 to 1984. He was a visiting fellow and the Institute of Developmental Studies at Princeton University in 1990. Over the years Tullis also served as a consultant to the United Nations (including the United Nations Research Institute for Social Development ) and the United States State Department.

At BYU Tullis was the chair of the department of political science from 1978 to 1983. From 1985 to 1989 he was associate academic vice president at BYU. Modernization in Brazil (1973) Politics and Social Change in Third World Countries (1973) Mormonism: A Faith for All Cultures (1978) (general editor, Arthur Henry King, Spencer J. Palmer and Douglas F. Tobler were associate editors) Food, the State, and International Political Economy (1986) - with W. Ladd Hollist Pursuing Food Security: Strategies and Obstacles in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East (1987) with W. Ladd Hollist Mormons in Mexico: Dynamics of Faith and Culture (1987) Handbook of Research on the Illicit Drug Traffic: Socioeconomic and Political Consequences (1991) Unintended Consequences: Illegal Drugs and Drug Policies in Nine Countries (1995) Reflections at Skyefield (2006) Life without Marta: Letters to a Memory (2008) A Search for Place: Eight Generations of Henrys and the Settlement of Utah’s Uintah Basin (2010) Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption (2018)