HongKongDoll

Candice L. Ruh, PhD

Office Hours

Fall 2026

Buzzard 2415

M/W 12:45-2:45 and by appointment

Frequently Taught Courses

CMN 3650 Organizational Communication

CMN 371 Communicating Across Differences

Education & Training

PhD, Communication, Certificate in Teaching and Learning in Higher Education, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2026

MA, Communication, Certificate in Mediation and Negotiation, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, 2011

BA, Communication Studies, University of Wisconsin-La Crosse, 1999

Publications

2026

Hightower, C., & Ruh, C. (2026). Borders, liminality, and the American dream: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first house address. Communication and Democracy. https://doi.org/10.1080/27671127.2026.2719916

Ruh, C., & Hightower, C. (2026). Exploring border rhetoric, resistance, and the American Dream: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s first house address. Feminist Pedagogy, 7(2), 1–7.

Ruh, C., & Harris, L. (2026). Yogic resistance: Swami Vivekananda and the rhetoric of transcendence. In Discursive regimes of democratic decline: Religio-ethnonationalism and the production of authoritarian power (pp. 261–277). Bloomsbury.

2025

Riforgiate, S. E., Ruh, C., Ibiwoye, C. O., Zinia, J. F., & Nartey, M. (2025). Mentoring in and across work organizations. Encyclopedia, 5(4), 169. https://doi.org/10.3390/encyclopedia5040169

Ruh, C. (2025). Exploring dimensions of crystallized identities. Feminist Pedagogy, 6(1), 1–5.

2023

Ruh, C. (2023). Can you bring your full self to work? The impact of identity and agency on structuration. In Casing the family: Theoretical and applied approaches to understanding family communication (2nd ed., pp. 159–169). Kendall Hunt.

Ruh, C. (2023). Book review: Decoding the digital church: Evangelical storytelling and the election of Donald J. Trump. Rhetoric & Public Affairs, 26(2), 149–154. https://doi.org/10.14321/rhetpublaffa.26.2.0149

Professional Affiliations

Central States Communication Association                                                  

National Communication Association                                                           

Organization for the Study of Communication, Language, and Gender        

Phi Theta Kappa