Dr. Kevin Meyer
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Research
Biography
Kevin R. Meyer (Ph.D., Ohio University, 2009) is an Associate Professor at Illinois State University. He previously served as Director of Forensics, Coordinator of Communication Studies, and Graduate Coordinator.
Current Courses
297.002Communication Research Methods
297.006Communication Research Methods
497.002Seminar in Quantitative Communication Research Methods
297.001Communication Research Methods
297.003Communication Research Methods
324.001Theory And Research In Persuasion
Teaching Interests & Areas
Argumentation and Debate, Communication Education, Communication Theory, Health Communication, Instructional Communication, Persuasion, Quantitative Research Methods, Small Group Communication
Research Interests & Areas
Instructional Communication, Communication Education, Basic Communication Course, Sports Apologia and Image Repair, Health Communication, Argumentation and Debate
Ph D Communication
MS Communication
BS Speech Communication and English
Jamie Comstock Graduate Faculty Student Mentorship Award
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award (Humanities)
College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award (Humanities)
Distinguished Article Award
Jamie Comstock Graduate Faculty Student Mentorship Award
Walk the Talk Contest: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Contest for Best Application of SoTL Knowledge Beyond the Individual Classroom
University Service Initiative Award
Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student
Book Review
Meyer, K. R. (2007). Appealing to and excluding audiences through the rhetoric of secrecy. [Review of the book Modern occult rhetoric: Mass media and the drama of secrecy in the twentieth century]. The Review of Communication, 7, 117-120. doi: 10.1080/15358590701211365
Book, Chapter
Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2025). Teaching persuasion. In J. P. Mazer (Ed.), Teaching communication: Volume II: Communication studies (pp. 272-288). Cognella.
Mao, Y., Guardado, M., & Meyer, K. R. (2014). Integrating Chinese community into Canadian society: Podcasts, technology apprehension, and language learning. In J. E. Aitken (Ed.) Cases on communication technology for second language acquisition and cultural learning (pp. 459-483). Hershey, PA: IGI Global. doi: 10.4018/978-1-4666-4482-3.ch022
Meyer, K. R., & Cutbirth, C. W. (2013). No pepper: Apologia and image repair in the 2002 labor negotiations between Major League Baseball and the players association. In J. R. Blaney, L. R. Lippert, & J. S. Smith (Eds.), Repairing the athlete’s image: Studies in sports image restoration (pp. 267-281). Lanham, MD: Lexington Books (Rowman & Littlefield).
Meyer, K. R., Carmack, H. J., & Pinkerton, C. M. (2008). Outline and argument construction. In K. R. Meyer, J. P. Mazer, & D. A. West (Eds.), You speak: Skills for the engaged speaker (pp. 65-76). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Journal Article
Meyer, K. R., Carpenter, N. J., & Hunt, S. K. (2022). Promoting critical reasoning: Civic engagement in an era of divisive politics and civil unrest. eJournal of Public Affairs, 11(1), 90-104.
Hunt, S. K., & Meyer, K. R. (2021). Making the case for a pedagogy of civic engagement, antiextremism, and antiracism: A response to forum essays. Communication Education, 70(4), 451-457. https://doi.org/10.1080/03634523.2021.1958239
Hunt, S. K., & Meyer, K. R. (2019). Engaging persuasion: What should undergraduate students enrolled in a persuasion course learn? Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2, 12-16. doi:10.31446/JCP.2019.04
Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2017). The lost art of lecturing: Cultivating student listening and notetaking. Communication Education, 66, 239-241. doi:10.1080/03634523.2016.1275719
Newsletter
Guardado, M., Meyer, K. R., & Mao, Y., (2011, October). Using podcasts in EAL programs. The Alberta Teachers of English as a Second Language Newsletter (pp. 5-7).
Textbook, New
Hunt, S. K., & Meyer, K. R. (2022). Engaged persuasion in a post-truth world. Cognella.
Textbook, Revised
Meyer, K. R., Mazer, J. P., & West, D. A. (Eds.). (2008). You speak: Skills for the engaged speaker. New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Rattine-Flaherty, E., Mao, Y., & Meyer, K. R. (2006). Constructing outlines and arguments. In M. Leeman, A. Smith, & S. Titsworth (Eds.), Skills for the engaged speaker (pp. 25-38). New York, NY: McGraw Hill.
Presentations
Hunt, S. K., & Meyer, K. R. (2023, March). Advocacy for the common good: Examining engaged persuasion in a post-truth world. Short course presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, St. Louis, MO.
Frey, T. K., Shebib, S. J., Lynn, B., Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2022, April). Experimental effects of instructor aesthetics in the zoom classroom: Online learning climate and student engagement. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Madison, WI. (Top 3 Paper, Communication Education Interest Group)
Hunt, S. K., & Meyer. K. R. (2021, November). Renewal and transformation: Examining engaged persuasion in a post-truth world. Short course presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Seattle, WA.