Mario De Pillis

Mario S. De Pillis was an emeritus professor of American Religious history at the University of [Massachusetts Amherst]. De Pillis specialized 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 had 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, were the parents of three sons. De Pillis was a Catholic.