Julie Carver is the Assistant Director of Forensics for the Trojan Debate Squad. In addition to teaching in the Annenberg School of Communication, Ms. Carver will focus on restoring the prominence and vitality of Public Debate at USC.
Carver brings to this position extensive public relations experience having held the positions of Account Executive, Strategic Business Manager and Director of Operations and Production. During her undergraduate years she competed in forensics, winning numerous speech and debate awards and serving as Debate Team President. While in graduate school, she was the graduate assistant for the team, which received its first top ten national ranking.
In her capacity as an adjunct instructor at Pepperdine, Carver taught Public Speaking as well as Communication Research Methods. Her primary area of research interest is juror decision making. While in graduate school, she served as research assistant to the trial consultant for the Gainesville serial killer. Out of this research, Carver developed her Master's thesis investigating the impact of community fear and pretrial publicity on fair trial rights. Her thesis has been entered into the appellate record.
She was also a freelance researcher and reporter for USA Today on the O.J. Simpson trial, providing social science research and co-authoring articles on juror attitudes and the death penalty. Carver received a liberal arts education at Pepperdine University's undergraduate and graduate School of Communication. She received her Juris Doctorate from the University of Notre Dame.
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