Benjamin Tillman, Ph.D.

• Books
  • Tillman, Benjamin F. 2011. Imprints on Native Lands: The Miskito-Moravian settlement landscape of Eastern Honduras. Tucson: University of Arizona Press.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F.  2004. La Influencia Morava en el Paisaje de la Mosquitia Hondureña. Tegucigalpa, Honduras, Editorial Guaymuras.
• Articles & Essays
  • Otterstrom, Samuel and Benjamin F. Tillman. 2013. “Income Change and Circular Migration: The Curious Case of Mobile Puerto Ricans 1995-2010.” Journal of Latin American Geography 12 (3):33-58.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F. 2009. “Measuring globalization’s influence on the cultural landscape: spatial succession in the plaza of Ponce, Puerto Rico.” Southeastern Geographer 49 (4):340-353.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F.  2008. “Not always oriented: Honduran plaza-church locational relations,” In Ethno-and Historical Geographic Studies in Latin America, ed. Kent Mathewson, Peter Herlihy, and Craig Revels, pp. 177-192. Geoscience and Man vol. 40, Baton Rouge: Geoscience Publications, Louisiana State University Department of Geography and Anthropology.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F. 2005. “La Geografia Historica de la Costa Misquita,” Revista de la Academia Hondurena de Geografia e Historia (Diciembre 2005):153-173.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F. 2005. “The Moravian Church Compound: a German Settlement Type in the Honduran Mosquitia,” In Bridging Cultural Geographies: Europe and Latin America, ed. Robert B. Kent, Vicent Ortells Chabrera, and Javier Soriano Martí, 103-23. (Collecció América No. 3). Castelló, Spain: Universitat Jaume I.
  • Tillman, Benjamin F. and Chad F. Emmett. 1999. “Spatial Succession of Sacred Space in Chicago,” Journal of Cultural Geography 18:2:79-108.

• “Puerto Ricans in Texas: A Growing Minority Population of Tarrant County,” (poster presentation With Tiffany Huff, TCU undergraduate geography major) Race, Ethnicity, and Place Conference, Fort Worth, TX, October 22-24, 2014.
• “Comparative Breadfruit use among Miskitu, Garífuna, Creole, and Rama Populations of Nicaragua’s Costa Atlántica,” Race, Ethnicy, and Place Conference, Fort Worth, TX, October 22-24, 2014.
• “Retracing the Old Bellamy Road: Florida’s first Federal Highway,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Tampa, April 8-12, 2014.
• “Comparative Breadfruit use among Miskitu, Garífuna, Creole, and Rama Populations of Nicaragua’s Costa Atlántica,” Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers, Panama City, Panama, January 6-9, 2014.
• “Miskito-Moravian settlement Landscape of Eastern Honduras,” invited presentation at the Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica, School of Geographic Sciences, August, 2013.
• “Income Change and Circular Migration: The Curious Case of Puerto Ricans in and out of the United States, 1995-2010,” (coauthored with Dr. Sam Otterstrom) Race, Ethnicity and Place conference, San Juan, Puerto Rico, October 24-26, 2012.
• “Globalization’s impact on the types of businesses located in the Plaza of Ponce, Puerto Rico,” Trascendiendo Fronteras conference, University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras (San Juan), March 26-27, 2008.
• “From Tahiti to Trujillo: An historical geography of the breadfruit tree’s Caribbean dispersal,” Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, San Francisco, April 20, 2007.

A.M. Pate, Jr., Professorship, “The British and the Breadfruit: An Historical Geography of the breadfruit tree and its Caribbean dispersal.” Requested fall 2014. Funded for fiscal year 2015 ($10,000 cash award and $7,500 research travel allowance).

• Association of American Geographers(Cultural Geography, Geography of Latin America, Geography of Religions and Belief Systems, and Historical Geography specialty groups)
• Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers (CLAG)

• Secretary -Treasurer, Latin America specialty group, Association of American Geographers, 2014-2016
• Committee Chair, Graduate Student Research Award Committee, historical geography specialty group, Association of American Geographers, 2008-2013