Mark P. Parillo

Associate Professor of History

BA, Notre Dame University, 1978

MA, Ohio State University, 1981

PhD, Ohio State University 1987

Fields of Interest:

Warfare in the Industrial Age

Logitics and military transportation

U.S. Military History

World War II

Japanese history

U.S. History, 1917-1945

Transportation history

Economic history, especially concerning industrialization

U.S. cultural history

Secretary, editor, World War Two Studies Association

Representative Publications:

"Burma and Southeast Asia, 1941-1945," in: Loyd E. Lee, ed., World War II in Asia and the Pacific and the War's Aftermath, with General Themes: A Handbook of Literature and Research (Westport: Greenwood Press, Inc., 1998).

"Allied Interdiction and Japanese Improvisation: The Japanese Transportation System During the Last Year of the War," in: Bulletin du Comite international d'histoire de la Deuxieme Guerre mondiale (Bulletin of the International Committee for the History of the Second World War) (Paris: Institut d'histoire du temps present, 1995).

"The Imperial Japanese Navy" in: World War II Naval History: A New Assessment of the Major Combatants, (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 1990).

The Japanese Merchant Marine in World War II (Annapolis, MD: Naval Institure Press, 1993).

Current Projects:

When the Rails Went to War: America and Japanese Railroads in World War II.

"Warfare in the Industrial Age: The Case of Horses in the Japanese Army in World War II."

"Defining Industrial-Age Warfare: World War II as the Apogee and Final Act of an Era."

Courses Taught:

Undergraduate:

U.S. Since 1877

World War I

World War II

Japan Since 1550