Firooza Pavri

Firooza has been the Director of the Muskie School of Public Service at the University of Southern Maine since spring 2016 and professor of geography for USM since fall 2008. Prior to that she served in the departments of geography and physical science at Emporia State University in Kansas from fall 1999 to 2008. Firooza has worked extensively on nationally funded programs related to sustainable solutions to water quality and land usage and has authored numerous publications and presentations on those and other topics. She obtained her Ph.D. from Ohio State University in 1999, her M.A. in Geography and Planning from University of Toledo, Ohio in 1994, and her B.A. in Geography from the University of Bombay, India in 1991.