David Trim
David J.B. Trim is a 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. Background. Trim was born in Bombay, India, in 1969 to British and Australian parents and raised largely in Sydney, Australia. He was educated in Britain: he graduated cum laude from Newbold College with a BA in History; his PhD in War Studies and History is from King's College, London, part of the University of London. Career. Trim taught for ten  years at Newbold College and for two years held the Walter C. Utt Chair in History at Pacific Union College. In late 2010 he was appointed Archivist of the Seventh-day Adventist Church and in 2011 became its global Director of Research. He has held research fellowships at the Huntington Library and the Folger Shakespeare Library, and been a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley and the University of Reading in the United Kingdom. Trim has been a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society since 2003. Scholarship. Trim is the editor or co-editor of thirteen 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), "European Warfare 1350-1750" (Cambridge University Press, 2010), "Pluralism, Parochialism and Contextualization: Challenges to Adventist Mission in Europe 1864-2004" (Peter Lang, 2010), and "Humanitarian Intervention: A History" (Cambridge University Press, 2011). "Humanitarian Intervention: A History" was widely reviewed not only in academic journals but in mainstream press, including in India.