Dr. Kevin Meyer
Associate Professor
Office
FEL Fell Hall 430
Office Hours
Spring 2026: By appointment, MWF 11 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Office Phone
Email
- About
- Education
- Awards & Honors
- Selected 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
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
Appealing to and excluding audiences through the rhetoric of secrecy.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2007)
Book, Chapter
Promoting democracy: Civic education in an era of antidemocratic unrest
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K Hunt.
(2025), chapter in a book, Lexington
Silence as Political Engagement: Student-led silent protests advocating for LGBTQ+ youth
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
(2025), 75-91, 10.5040/9781978748194.ch-004, Quiet Defiance: The rhetoric of silent protest, Lexington Books
Silence as political engagement: Student-led silent protests advocating for LGBTQ+ youth
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K Hunt.
(2025), chapter in a book, Lexington
Persuasive Public Speaking: Considerations for a post-truth era
Josh Fitzgerald, Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
(2024), 155-164, 10.4324/9781003333777-18, The Routledge Handbook of Public Speaking Research and Theory, Routledge
Persuasive public speaking: Considerations for a post-truth era
Joshua Fitzgerald, Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K Hunt.
(2024), 154-164, chapter in a book, Routledge
Teaching persuasion
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
(2024), Cognella
Integrating Chinese community into Canadian society: Podcasts, technology apprehension, and language learning.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2014)
Outline and argument construction.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2008)
Journal Article
Promoting critical reasoning: Civic engagement in an era of divisive politics and civil unrest
Kevin R. Meyer, Nathan J. Carpenter, Steve K. Hunt.
eJournal of Public Affair, 11 (1), 90-104, (2022)
Making the case for a pedagogy of civic engagement, antiextremism, and antiracism: A response to forum essays
Stephen K. Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Communication Education, 70 (4), 451-457, (2021), 10.1080/03634523.2021.1958239
Engaging persuasion: What should undergraduate students enrolled in a persuasion course learn?
Stephen K Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Journal of Communication Pedagogy, 2, 12-16, (2019), 10.31446/JCP.2019.04
Podcasts and English-Language Learning: A qualitative investigation of organizational, instructional, and learning perspectives
Yuping Mao, Martin Guardado, Kevin R Meyer.
International Journal of Information Communication Technologies and Human Development, 11 (1), 20-35, (2019), 10.4018/ijicthd.2019010102
Assessing evaluation fidelity between students and instructors in the basic communication course: The impact of criterion-based speech evaluation training
Terrell K. Frey, Cheri J. Simonds, John F. Hooker, Kevin R. Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
Basic Communication Course Annual, 30, 2-31, (2018)
Exploring the Relationship between Students with Accommodations and Instructor Self-Efficacy in Complying with Accommodations
Anna M. Wright, Kevin R Meyer.
Higher Learning Research Communications, 7 (1), 65, (2017), 10.18870/hlrc.v7i1.367
The lost art of lecturing: Cultivating student listening and notetaking
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
Communication Education, 66 (2), 239-241, (2017), 10.1080/03634523.2016.1275719
Implementing the political engagement project in an introductory communication course: An examination of the effects on students’ political knowledge, efficacy, skills, behavior, and ideology
Steve Hunt, Kevin Meyer, John Hooker, Cheri Simonds, Lance Lippert.
eJournal of Public Affairs, 5 (2), 116-151, (2016), 10.21768/ejopa.v5i2.111
Comparing student perceptions of the classroom climate created by U.S. American and international teaching assistants.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2014)
Attitudes Toward Online Social Connection and Self-Disclosure as Predictors of Facebook Communication and Relational Closeness
Andrew M. Ledbetter, Joseph P. Mazer, Jocelyn M. DeGroot, Kevin R Meyer, Yuping Mao, Brian Swafford.
Communication Research, 38 (1), 27-53, (2011), 10.1177/0093650210365537
Rethinking evaluation strategies for student participation.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2011)
Rethinking evaluation strategies for student participation.
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen Hunt.
Basic Communication Course Annual, 23, 93-126, (2011)
Assessing preemptive argumentation in students’ persuasive speech outlines.
Kevin R Meyer, Kurtz R. R., Hines J. L., Cheri Simonds, Stephen Hunt.
Basic Communication Course Annual, 22, 6-38, (2010)
Assessing preemptive argumentation in students’ persuasive speech outlines.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2010)
A 15 year review of ABC, CBS, and NBC news coverage of organ donation: Implications for organ donation campaigns.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2009)
Pedagogy in medical school: Rethinking the narrative nature of standardized patient programs.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2009)
Speech evaluation assessment: An analysis of written speech feedback on instructor evaluation forms in the basic communication course.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2009)
Assessing Information Literacy Instruction in the Basic Communication Course
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt, K. Megan Hopper, Kashmira V. Thakkar, Vicky Tsoubakopoulos, Kaylee J. Van Hoose.
Communication Teacher, 22 (1), 22-34, (2008), 10.1080/17404620801926925
Assessing classroom management training for basic course instructors.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2008)
Designing classroom management training for basic course instructors.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2007)
Examining the association between media coverage of organ donation and organ transplantation rates
Brian L. Quick, Kevin R Meyer, Do Kyun Kim, Drew Taylor, Jessica Kline, Trish Apple, Joel D. Newman.
Clinical Transplantation, 21 (2), 219-223, (2007), 10.1111/j.1399-0012.2006.00628.x
Effects of Instructor Speech Rate on Student Affective Learning, Recall, and Perceptions of Nonverbal Immediacy, Credibility, and Clarity
Brent K. Simonds, Kevin R Meyer, Margaret M. Quinlan, Stephen K. Hunt.
Communication Research Reports, 23 (3), 187-197, (2006), 10.1080/08824090600796401
Effects of instructor speech rate on student affective learning, recall, and perceptions of nonverbal immediacy, credibility and clarity
Brent Simonds, Kevin R Meyer, M R Quinlan, Stephen Hunt.
Communication Research Reports, 23, 187-197, (2006)
Implications of students’ cognitive styles for the development of argumentation skills.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2006)
Newsletter
Using podcasts in EAL programs.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2011)
Other
Promoting democracy: Civic education in an era of antidemocratic unrest
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
Lexington Books, 53-70, (2025), 10.5040/9781978748729.ch-003
No Pepper: Apologia and Image Repair in the 2002 Labor Negotiations Between Major League Baseball and the Players Association
Kevin R Meyer, Craig W Cutbirth.
The Rowman and Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., 267-282, (2012), 10.5040/9781978732155.ch-16
Textbook, Revised
You speak: Skills for the engaged speaker.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2008)
Constructing outlines and arguments.
Kevin R Meyer.
(2006)
Presentations
Image repair differences between human and AI-generated messaging: The case of the Chicago White Sox
Kevin R Meyer, Joseph Blaney, Stephen Hunt, Lance Lippert, K. Megan Hopper, Roy David Magnuson.
Annual Convention of the Broadcast Education Association, Las Vegas, NV, April, 2025
Widening the scope of communication theory: Teaching the undergraduate communication theory course to advance the common good
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Central States Communication Association Convention, Cincinnati, OH, April, 2025
Incoherence in a post-truth world: Implications for teaching persuasion, research methods, and communication theory
Stephen K Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Central States Communication Association Convention, Grand Rapids, MI, April, 2024
Advocacy for the common good: Examining engaged persuasion in a post-truth world
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Central States Communication Association Convention, St. Louis, MO, March 30, 2023
Experimental effects of instructor aesthetics in the zoom classroom: Online learning climate and student engagement
Kody Frey, Samantha J. Shebib, Ben Lynn, Kevin R. Meyer, Stephen Hunt.
Central States Communication Association Conference, Madison, WI, April, 2022
Renewal and transformation: Examining engaged persuasion in a post-truth world
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R. Meyer.
National Communication Association Convention, Seattle, WA, November, 2021
Assessment in the basic communication course: Evaluating a criterion-based speech evaluation training program for students
Terrell K. Frey, Cheri J. Simonds, John F. Hooker, Kevin R. Meyer, Stephen K. Hunt.
National Communication Association, Dallas, TX, November, 2017
Student classroom engagement: Developing a scale to measure student voice
Kevin R Meyer, S Titsworth, E E Graham, B R Bates, G P Brooks.
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, November, 2011
A home in academic administration?: Lessons and challenges from the front lines
Kevin R Meyer.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2011
Plagiarism in the basic course: Best practices for encouraging academic integrity
Kevin R Meyer.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Milwaukee, WI, April, 2011
A new pedagogy of engagement for communication educators: A repeated measures examination of the effects of student participation in the Political Engagement Project
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cincinnati, OH, April, 2010
Assessing critical information literacy skills of students in the basic communication course
Stephen Hunt, K. Megan Hopper, Kevin R Meyer, K V Thakkar, V Tsoumbakopoulos, K J Van Hoose.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Indianapolis, IN, April, 2006
Thinking critically about the state of argumentation pedagogy: The implications of students' cognitive style for the instruction of argumentation and persuasive communication
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer, Lance Lippert.
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Boston, MA, November, 2005
Effects of instructor speech rate on student perceptions of affective learning and sudent perceptions of instructor immediacy, credibility, and clarity
M R Quinlan, Kevin R Meyer, Stephen Hunt, Brent Simonds.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Kansas City, MO, April, 2005
Students' perception of power use and behavior alteration techniques: A comparison of learning community versus non-learning community classes
L A Cobb, Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Kansas City, MO, April, 2005
The role of information literacy assessment in Illinois State University’s basic communication course in the development of the new COM 110
Jennifer Hootman, K. Megan Hopper, Stephen Hunt, Chad Kahl, Kevin R Meyer, Vicky Tsoumbakopoulos, Kaylee Van Hoose.
Ewing Symposium: An Inter-Departmental Conference, Normal, IL, April, 2005
Argumentation pedagogy: Implications of students' cognitive styles on the development of argumentation skills
Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
Annual Meeting of the National Communication Association, Chicago, IL, November, 2004
The effects of teacher clarity on affective and cognitive learning: A causal model of clear teaching behaviors
B S Titsworth, D R Novak, Stephen Hunt, Kevin R Meyer.
International Communication Association, New Orleans, LA, May, 2004
Rethinking evaluation strategies for student participation
Kevin R Meyer, Stephen Hunt.
Annual Meeting of the Central States Communication Association, Cleveland, OH, April, 2004