Mario De Pillis

Mario S. De Pillis (born 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania[1]) is an emeritus professor of American Religious history at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. De Pillis specializes in the history of such groups as the Latter-day Saints and Shakers. He was the second president of the Mormon History Association who was not a member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, any other Latter-day Saint movement church, or a former member of any such church.

De Pillis has a bachelor's and master's degree from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Yale University.

De Pillis and his wife, the former Freda M. Rustemeyer, are the parents of three sons. De Pillis is a Catholic.