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Specialization:
Geography: Latin America; Historical Geography
Office:
Reed Hall 308A
Phone: 817-257-6301
E-mail: B.Tillman@tcu.edu
Ben Tillman earned his B.S. (1993) and M.S. (1994) degrees in geography from Brigham Young University, and his Ph.D. (1999) in geography from Louisiana State University. He joined the TCU Department of History and Geography in Fall 2000 where he teaches world regional geography, geography of Latin America, and graduate seminars on the historical geography of Latin America.
Dr. Tillman’s research is centered on the historical and cultural geography of Central America’s Caribbean coast and is particularly focused on cultural landscapes and human-environment interaction. In 1998 he was awarded a Fulbright grant to study Moravian missionary influence on Honduran Miskito Indian settlements and he and his young family spent several months living in “La Mosquitia” while he traveled to more than sixty villages to conduct research. His publications include: “Spatial Succession of Sacred Space in Chicago,” Journal of Cultural Geography (2001); “The Moravian Church Compound: A German Settlement Type in the Honduran Mosquitia,” In América Latina y Europa: Conecciones Geográficos sobre Cinco Siglos, Collecció Humanitats, Publicaciones de la Universitat Jaume I (forthcoming); and El paisaje de asentamientos Miskitos del este de Honduras, con énfasis en la contribución Morava, Editorial Guaymuras, Tegucigalpa, Honduras (forthcoming).
Dr. Tillman’s current research examines the effects of globalization
on traditional town plazas in Puerto Rico, and investigates the historical-cultural
geography of breadfruit in Central America and the Caribbean.