Anne Kane retired as Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Houston Downtown. A founding graduate student member of the “culture club” at UCLA, Professor Kane is a social theorist and historical sociologist specializing in cultural sociology and social movements. Her book Constructing Irish Nationalist Identity: Ritual and Discourse during the Land War, 1879-1882 was published in 2011. She is currently researching the Irish Republican Movement and the Northern Ireland conflict, focusing on the performance of political violence and the construction and processes of counterpublics. Her first publication on the IRA, “The Civil Sphere and Revolutionary Violence: the Irish Republican Movement, 1970-1998.” is a chapter in Breaching the Civil Order: Radicalism and the Civil Sphere, edited by Jeffrey Alexander, Trevor Stack and Farhad Khosrokhavar, Cambridge University Press (2020).
