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).
“Kennel’s Ontologies of Violence does not offer a definition that can become the cornerstone of a political vision. Instead, it undoes easy sloganeering and even challenges the headiest of theorizing in order to bring to the fore what is left unsaid when the term ‘violence’ is said.”
– Guy Lancaster in Marx & Philosophy Review of Books (November 2023)
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 