Taylor Mack

B.A., Geography, 1989
M.A., Geography, 1992
(Ph.D., LSU 1997)
tmack@latech.edu

Taylor is currently the geographer in the Department of Social
Sciences at Louisiana Tech University, located in Ruston, in the
northern part of Louisiana. He teaches a wide variety of geography
courses, including World Regional, Cultural, Economic, Urban,
Physical, North America, Latin America, and Geography of the South.
Taylor's research is on the Historical Geography of Honduras, and he
has recently been examining the port cities of Omoa and Puerto Cortez,
as well as the Honduran Trans-Oceanic Railway of the 1870s (they only
laid about 58 miles of track!). Taylor is currently the
Secretary/Treasurer of the Latin America Specialty Group (LASG) of the
AAG, a Board Member of the Conference of Latin Americanist Geographers
(CLAG), and is the Editor of the joint LASG & CLAG Newsletter.