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Just completed a series of film screenings in 22 African countries from October 19 – 25, 2020, with the goal of getting African stories back to Africans and summed up in the phrase: “Some say we are made of flesh and blood but we believe we are made of stories.” 


Gave a talk at Google headquarters in Seattle on October 19, 2019. He also had a screening and Q&A at University of Washington and a screening at the Langston Hughes cultural Center in Seattle in October, 2019.


Gill, P. (2015). What in the World is Going On? Wisdom teachings for our time. Balboa Press.


Gilliland, T. E., Sanchirico, J. N., & Taylor, J. E. (2022). A Bioeconomic Local General Equilibrium Assessment of Distributional Consequences of Small-Scale Fisheries Reform in Developing Countries. Marine Resource Economics, 37(2), 111-134.


Gilliland, T. E., Sanchirico, J. N., & Taylor, J. E. (2020). Market-Driven Bioeconomic General Equilibrium Impacts of Tourism on Resource-Dependent Local Economies: A Case from the Western Philippines. Journal of Environmental Management, 271(4), 110968.


Lindsay, A. R., Sanchirico J. N., Gilliland, T. E., Ambo-Rappe, R., Taylor, J. E., Krueck, N. C., & Mumby, P.J. (2020). Evaluating Sustainable Development Policies in Rural Coastal Economies. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 117(52), 33170–76.


Gilliland, T. E. (2021) Northern Parulas (Setophaga americana) mobbing a Pearly-eyed Thrasher (Margarops fuscatus) depredating an adult Bananaquit (Coereba flaveola). Journal of Caribbean Ornithology 34, 29–31.


Cox, S.M. and Gillis, G.B. (2020). The integration of sensory feedback in the modulation of anuran landing preparation. J. Exp. Biol, 223, 1-10.


Ekstrom, L. and G.B. Gillis. 2015. Pre-landing wrist muscle activity in landing toads. J. Exp. Biol. 218:2410-2415.