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).

New Review of Ontologies of Violence (June 2024)

“Kennel’s work provides indispensable insights into the landscape of political theology, philosophy, and social theory. …While Kennel shares Radical Orthodoxy’s critique of the privatization of religion and the myth of purely secular spaces, he does so with a humble dispossession, care, and nuance absent from scholars such as Milbank… Overall, Kennel provides a strong case for an intersectional and nonviolent approach to knowing, thinking, and being in the world.”

– Andrew Banacos in Reading Religion