Name Mario Pillis | ||
Education University of Chicago, Yale University | ||
Mario S. De Pillis (born 1926, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) 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 Mormons and Shakers. He was the second president of the Mormon History Association who was not a Mormon in any sense of the term.
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 Roman Catholic.
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