Dr. Maxwell Kennel

Senior Research Fellow at the Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies

Director of Pandora Press and Editor of the Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies Series.

Co-Investigator on the CREATE Project and Affiliate at the Arcand Centre for Health Equity at NOSM University.

Author of Postsecular History (Palgrave, 2022) and Ontologies of Violence (Brill, 2023).

Editor of Astrid von Schlachta’s Anabaptists. Trans. Victor Thiessen (Pandora, 2024), Thomas Kaufman’s The Anabaptists. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2024), and Hans-Jürgen Goertz’s Conrad Grebel (1498-1526): Critic of Pious Facades. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2025).

Co-Editor of Messianic Imagination (Cascade, 2025), and (with Berit Jany), Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s The Anabaptists: A Comedy in Two Acts. Trans. Lauren Friesen (Pandora, 2025).

Postsecular History Book Launch Symposium (March 2022)

I am excited to say that in March 2022 the Toronto Mennonite Theological Centre will host an online launch symposium on my book Postsecular History.

The launch will begin with an introduction to the book by Kyle Gingerich Hiebert, followed by responses from my dissertation supervisor Travis Kroeker (McMaster University, Religious Studies Department), my postdoctoral supervisor Pamela Klassen (University of Toronto, Department for the Study of Religion), and my colleagues Jennifer Otto (University of Lethbridge, Religious Studies Department) and Michael Driedger (Brock University, History Department).