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).

Forthcoming and In-Press Publications 2024/2025

“Domination and Dignity: A Conversation with Vincent Lloyd on the Black Radical Tradition” Theory, Culture & Society (2025)

“Boundaries, Violence, and Accountability: Reading Miriam Toews’ Women Talking with Jenny Hval’s Girls Against God“ Conrad Grebel Review 41 (2023). Forthcoming in early 2025.

“Anabaptist Critique” Mennonite Quarterly Review 99 (January 2025): 209-216.

“Pacifist Historiography: Anabaptist History between Normativity and Description and beyond Neutralization and Polarization” Angelaki (forthcoming 2025).

Astrid von Schlachta, Anabaptists: From the Reformation to the 21st Century. Translated by Victor Thiessen. Edited by Maxwell Kennel. (Hamilton, ON: Pandora Press, 2024). Includes my “Editor’s Afterword: What Can Anabaptism Do?”

Thomas Kaufmann, The Anabaptists: From the Radical Reformers to the Baptists. Translated by Christina Moss. Edited by Maxwell Kennel (Pandora Press, 2024)

Symposium on Ontologies of Violence, Syndicate (2025).

“Empowering Faculty in Socially Accountable Medical Education,” Maxwell Kennel, Ghislaine Attema, Jyotsna Rimal, Prattama Santoso Utomo, and Nicholas Torres. Forthcoming in Social Accountability of Medical Schools: Empowering the Future of Medical Education and Healthcare. Edited by Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla, Mohamed Hassan Taha, and Charles Boelen (Springer, forthcoming 2025).

“Socially Accountable Research,” Maxwell Kennel, Kerri Delaney, Jessica Jurgutis, Joseph LeBlanc, Sarah Larkins, Karen Johnston, Erin Cameron. Forthcoming in Social Accountability of Medical Schools: Empowering the Future of Medical Education and Healthcare. Edited by Mohamed Elhassan Abdalla, Mohamed Hassan Taha, and Charles Boelen (Springer, forthcoming 2025).