Dr. Kevin Meyer

Associate Professor

School of Communication

Office

FEL Fell Hall 430

Office Hours

Fall 2025: By appointment, MWF 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.

Office Phone

(309) 438-3298office
phone

kmeyer@ilstu.eduemail

Website

about.illinoisstate.edu/kmeyerwebsite

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

COM 297.002 Communication Research Methods

COM 111.001 Introduction To Communication Theories

COM 497.002 Seminar in Quantitative Communication Research Methods

COM 297.001 Communication Research Methods

COM 297.003 Communication Research Methods

COM 111.005 Introduction To Communication Theories

Teaching Interests & Areas

Quantitative Research Methods, Communication Theory, Silence, Persuasion, Small Group Communication, Instructional Communication, Communication Education, Health Communication, Argumentation and Debate

Research Interests & Areas

Silence, Instructional Communication, Persuasion, Civic Engagement, Communication Education, Sports Apologia and Image Repair, Health Communication, Basic Communication Course, Argumentation and Debate

Ph D Communication

Ohio University

Athens, OH

MS Communication

Illinois State University

Normal, IL

BS Speech Communication and English

Emporia State University

Emporia, KS

Jamie Comstock Graduate Faculty Student Mentorship Award

School of Communication

2017

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award (Humanities)

College of Arts and Sciences

2016

College of Arts and Sciences Outstanding Service Award (Humanities)

College of Arts and Sciences

2015

Distinguished Article Award

Basic Course Division of the National Communication Association

2015

Jamie Comstock Graduate Faculty Student Mentorship Award

School of Communication

2015

Walk the Talk Contest: Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Contest for Best Application of SoTL Knowledge Beyond the Individual Classroom

Center for Teaching, Learning, and Technology

2015

University Service Initiative Award

Illinois State University

2014

Outstanding Teaching by a Graduate Student

Instructional and Developmental Division of the International Communication Association

2005

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., & Hunt, S. Silence as Political Engagement: Student-led silent protests advocating for LGBTQ+ youth. Quiet Defiance: The rhetoric of silent protest. Lexington Books (2025): 75-91.

Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2025, in press). Promoting democracy: Civic education in an era of antidemocratic unrest. In A. M. McGowan-Kirsch (Ed.), Encouraging college students democratic engagement in an era of political polarization (pp. 53-69). Lexington Books.

Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2025, in press). Silence as political engagement: Student-led silent protests advocating for LGBTQ+ youth. In D. W. Seitz (Ed.), Quiet defiance: The rhetoric of silent protest (pp. ?-?). Lexington Books.

Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2025). Teaching persuasion. In J. P. Mazer (Ed.), Teaching communication: Volume II: Communication studies (pp. 272-288). Cognella.

Fitzgerald, J., Meyer, K., & Hunt, S. Persuasive Public Speaking: Considerations for a post-truth era. The Routledge Handbook of Public Speaking Research and Theory. Routledge (2024): 155-164.

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., & Meyer, K. Making the case for a pedagogy of civic engagement, antiextremism, and antiracism: A response to forum essays. Communication Education 70.4 (2021): 451-457.

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

Mao, Y., Guardado, M., & Meyer, K. Podcasts and English-Language Learning: A qualitative investigation of organizational, instructional, and learning perspectives. International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development 11.1 (2019): 20-35.

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).

Other

Meyer, K., & Hunt, S. Promoting democracy: Civic education in an era of antidemocratic unrest. Encouraging College Students' Democratic Engagement in an Era of Political Polarization. Lexington Books (2025): 53-70.

Meyer, K., & Cutbirth, C. No Pepper: Apologia and Image Repair in the 2002 Labor Negotiations Between Major League Baseball and the Players Association. Repairing the Athlete's Image: Studies in sports image restoration. The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc. (2012): 267-282.

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. (2024, April). Incoherence in a post-truth world: Implications for teaching persuasion, research methods, and communication theory. Competitively selected short course presented at the meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Grand Rapids, MI.

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.

Frey, T. K., Simonds, C. J., Hooker, J. F., Meyer, K. R., & Hunt, S. K. (2017, November). Assessment in the basic communication course: Evaluating a criterion-based speech evaluation training program for students. Presented at the annual meeting of the National Communication Association, Dallas, TX.

A home in academic administration?: Lessons and challenges from the front lines. Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association. (2011)

Plagiarism in the basic course: Best practices for encouraging academic integrity. Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association. (2011)

Student classroom engagement: Developing a scale to measure student voice. Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association. (2011)

A new pedagogy of engagement for communication educators: A repeated measures examination of the effects of student participation in the Political Engagement Project. Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association. (2010)

Assessing critical information literacy skills of students in the basic communication course. Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association. (2006)