David Trim

David Trim

David J.B. Trim is a prominent historian, archivist, educator, and administrator whose specialties are in European military history and religious history. Currently, he is the director of Archives, Statistics, and Research at the World Headquarters of Seventh-day Adventists and an adjunct professor at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary at Andrews University.[1]

Background

Trim was born in Bombay, India, in 1969 to British and Australian parents and raised largely in Sydney, Australia.[2] He was educated at King's College, London, part of the University of London.[3]

Career

Trim has held the Walter C. Utt Chair in History at Pacific Union College, and taught for ten years at Newbold College. He has also had visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library, and the University of California at Berkeley. Trim was a senior research fellow in the History department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom and has been, since 2003, a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.[3] Currently, in addition to being the Seventh-day Adventist Church's archivist, he is a visiting professor in Church History at the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary.

Scholarship

A prolific author, Trim is the editor or co-editor of ten volumes, including: The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism (Brill, 2003), Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion (Brill, 2006), The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France (Peter Lang, 2007), European Warfare 1350-1750 (Cambridge University Press, 2010) and Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe 1864-2004 (Peter Lang, 2010).[4] His other publications include over 150 articles and chapters in scholarly journals, popular magazines, and books.[5]

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