Faculty of Humanities and Education
Dr. Patriann Smith, Co-Principal Investigator and USF Project Coordinator of RISE Caribbean, serves as a tenured associate professor at the University of South Florida. Dr. Smith works in conjunction with Principal Investigator — Professor S. Joel Warrican, Project Coordinator – Dr. Coreen Leacock, to build the research capacity and generate high-quality research and publications in the Caribbean Educational Research Center (CERC) by leveraging the expertise of pre-eminent research productive faculty from USF. Through the establishment of the Cross-Cultural Research Mentorship Network (CCRMN) that serves as a basis for the RISE UWI-USF research-practice partnership, Dr. Smith serves as a bridge between the USF Research Mentors, USF Instructional Faculty and UWI CERC Research Fellows and Assistants. She oversees preparations for the implementation of the summer courses taught by USF Instructional Faculty as well as the research mentorship and programming offered by Research Mentors during the annual RISE Summer Institutes and research conferences.
