Kevin Musgrave

Kevin Musgrave is an Associate Professor and Associate Dean in the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Southeast Missouri State University. He teaches courses in communication studies, including Fundamentals of Oral Communication, Intercultural Communication, and Hip-Hop and Rebellion. His research focuses on Contemporary Rhetorical Theory, Economic Rhetoric, and Rhetorics of Conservatism, particularly examining corporate personhood and rhetorical ethics.

Dr. Musgrave has published extensively in journals such as Rhetoric Society Quarterly and Philosophy and Rhetoric. He authored the book Persons of the Market: Conservatism, Corporate Personhood, and Economic Theology (2022) and is currently working on a second book titled Reaction and Revolution: Critical Theory on the Right.

Scientific Awards

• Top Four Paper for 'The Rhetoric of Corporate Psychopathy: Neoliberalism, Personhood, and Demonization in The Corporation,' NCA Economics, Communication, and Society Division, 2020
• NCA Doctoral Honors Seminar, Athens, OH, Summer 2016
• Top Four Student Paper for 'The Rupture as Ethical Imperative: Reading the Phaedrus through Levinas’s Ethics,' NCA Philosophy of Communication Division, 2016
• Top Four Student Paper for 'A Struggle for Hearts and Minds: Industry v. Politics in Bruce Barton’s The Public,' NCA Association for Business Communication, 2015
• College of Humanities and Social Sciences Research Activity Award, 2022