Maxwell Kennel is a Senior Research Associate in the Centre for Social Accountability at the Northern Ontario School of Medicine University where he works on an interdisciplinary team focused on socially accountable research and medical education. He is the author of a book on periodization and the secular-religious distinction called Postsecular History: Political Theology and the Politics of Time (Palgrave Macmillan, 2022), and a book that reconceptualizes violence as the violation of value-laden boundaries called Ontologies of Violence: Deconstruction, Pacifism, and Displacement (Brill, 2023). From 2021 to 2023 he was a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto working under the supervision of Pamela Klassen on a critique of conspiratorial reason (under contract with Routledge). He has published articles on time and history in Studies in Religion / Sciences Religieuses, Political Theology, rhizomes, Angelaki, and Telos, and articles on Mennonite Studies in Literature & Theology, the Mennonite Quarterly Review, the Conrad Grebel Review, the Journal of Mennonite Studies, and Hamilton Arts and Letters. He has also edited Robert Friedmann’s manuscript Design for Living: Regard, Concern, Service, and Love (Wipf & Stock, 2017), a special issue of Political Theology on interdisciplinary approaches to Mennonite Political Theology (2021), and an ongoing book series in Anabaptist and Mennonite Studies with Pandora Press, where he also serves as Director.