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).
A symposium on my book Postsecular History has just been published in Political Theology (online 2022, forthcoming 2023). See below for links to the contributions, and an open-access link to my response. I feel really lucky to have such thoughtful mentors and peers responding to my book, so please enjoy!
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 