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).

Upcoming Panel on Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants’ War at 500 Years.

A Panel on: Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants’ War at 500 Years. Saturday, April 04, 03:15PM – 05:00PM at the Western Political Science Association meetings in San Diego, California.

Papers:

1525: The Insurgent Theology of the German Peasants, Massimiliano Tomba, University of California Santa Cruz

“We Are Free and We Wish to Be Free”: Political Thought and the Peasants’ War, Oliver Silverman, The Graduate Center, City University of New York

Thomas Müntzer in the Marxist Imagination, Loren Goldman, University of Pennsylvania

“This Is My Body”: Thomas Müntzer, Prophetic People, and Embodied Sovereignty, Anne Norton, University of Pennsylvania

Discussant: Maxwell Kennel (Canadian Institute for Far-Right Studies), virtual/Zoom