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. Vic Thiessen (Pandora, 2024), Thomas Kaufman’s The Anabaptists. Trans. Christina Moss (Pandora, 2025), 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).