LaMond Tullis has been a professor of political science and associate academic vice president at Brigham Young University. He is a specialist in Latin American studies and has written multiple works—books and articles in Spanish and English—on The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Latin America, especially Mexico. He is also a scholar in other subjects. His academic studies, for example, have been published by university presses, including those of Harvard, Utah State, Nebraska, and BYU. Commercial publishers of his works include John Wiley and Sons, Lynn Reinner, and Greenwood Press. His most recent book preceding this volume is Martyrs in Mexico: A Mormon Story of Revolution and Redemption (2018). His article “Tzotzil-Speaking Mormon Maya in Chiapas, Mexico” won the Mormon History Association’s Best International Article award for 2018.

Tullis received his master’s degree in political science from BYU and his doctorate from Harvard University. He has been a visiting fellow at the London School of Economics, the University of Sussex’s Institute of Development Studies, and Princeton University’s Center of International Studies at its Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs.

He and his deceased wife, Marta Morrill, are the parents of six children. He and his second wife, Eileen Heurkins Roundy, served a Church history mission in Mexico (2011–13). Parts of this book draw from that experience.

The Tullises enjoy a pastoral life near Spring City in Utah’s Sanpete County.