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).
Messianic Imagination: Politics, Theology, and Literature [A festschrift for P. Travis Kroeker]. Edited by Joseph Wiebe, Paul G. Doerksen, Maxwell Kennel, and Grant Poettcker; foreword by Stanley Hauerwas (Cascade, 2025). 290 pp. Includes a co-authored editors’ introduction, and my chapter “Critique of Possessive Desire,” 77-92. Used by permission of Wipf and Stock Publishers, www.wipfandstock.com
Dr. Maxwell Kennel 