David Trim

David Trim

David Trim is a prominent historian, archivist and educator 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.^[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 and 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; and he has held visiting fellowships at the Huntington Library, the Folger Shakespeare Library and the University of California at Berkley; was a senior research fellow in the History department at the University of Reading in the United Kingdom; and is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society.^[3]

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 fifty articles and chapters in scholarly journals and books.^[5]

Bibliography

• Author, Seventh-day Adventist Mission in the Middle East. Silver Spring, MD: General Conference Office of Archives and Statistics, 2011.
• Editor, The Huguenots: History and Memory in Transnational Context. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2011.
• Co-editor, with Brendan Simms, Humanitarian Intervention—A History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2011; South Asian edn, 2011.
• Co-editor, with Frank Tallett, European Warfare, 1350–1750. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
• Co-editor, with Daniel Heinz, Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2010.
• Co-editor, with Richard Bonney, The Development of Pluralism in Modern Britain and France. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2007.
• Co-editor, with Richard Bonney, Persecution and Pluralism: Calvinists and Religious Minorities in Early-Modern Europe, 1550-1700. Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Brussels, Frankfurt am Main, New York & Vienna: Peter Lang, 2006.
• Co-editor, with Mark Charles Fissel, Amphibious Warfare 1000-1700: Commerce, State Formation and European Expansion, History of Warfare.Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2006.
• Co-editor, with Peter J. Balderstone, Cross, Crown and Community: Religion, Government and Culture in Early Modern England, 1400–1800. Oxford, Bern & New York: Peter Lang, 2004.
• Editor, The Chivalric Ethos and the Development of Military Professionalism, History of Warfare. Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2003.

References

1. ^ http://www.brill.nl/huguenots-history-and-memory-transnational-context; http://www.adventistyearbook.org/ViewAdmField.aspx?AdmFieldID=GC.
2. ^ http://spectrummagazine.org/article/interviews/2010/01/19/meeting-team-david-trim
3. ^ ^{a b} http://www.wau.edu/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=35&Itemid=97.
4. ^ http://www.brill.nl/brill-search/results/title%3A%22trim%22.
5. ^ http://www.google.com/search?q=david+jb+trim&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8&aq=t&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a#q=david+jb+trim&oe=utf-8&rls=org.mozilla:en-US:official&client=firefox-a&um=1&ie=UTF-8&tbo=u&tbm=bks&source=og&sa=N&hl=en&tab=wp&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.&fp=dce548614f8e8b3c&biw=1024&bih=625.

External links

• General Conference of Seventh-day Adventist Church
• King's College
• University of London
• Brill
• Cambridge University Press