Geniece Crawford Mondé, Ph.D. is the Herman N. Hipp Associate professor of sociology at Furman University in Greenville, SC. She is an award winning scholar, recognized for her research and writing on women impacted the the criminal legal system. 

Her book, This is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System examines how women navigate life after prison, managing the constraints of societal exclusion, while centering their love towards their children.  

Her latest research examines how Juneteenth, as a cultural celebration, centers the history and present-day narratives of joy and community among African Americans in the U.S. South. 

Geniece's body of scholarship also explores social media's role as a tool of counternarrative framing among Black women, the intersection between religious faith and responses to crime in the urban context and the importance of drawing upon theoretical frameworks that center marginalized women's experiences. Her writing has been published in outlets such as Critical Criminology, The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Humanity and Society, Social Service Review, NBC News, Inquest and The Journal of Race, Ethnicity and Religion. 

One of her many passions is teaching, advising and encouraging first generation college students as they navigate their collegiate experience. During college she was a McNair Scholar and a UNC-MURAP fellow, both of which helped her to become the first in her family to earn a college degree in the United States and pursue a doctorate. While in graduate school she was a residential tutor in race relations, residing in undergraduate housing for four years. Years after completing her doctorate, she served a term on the advisory board for the Institute of African American Research at UNC-Chapel Hill.

Born in Mandeville, Jamaica, Geniece immigrated with her parents to Queens, NY as a young child. She earned her bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the State University of New York-Binghamton and her master of arts and doctorate degrees in sociology from Harvard University. In a former life she used to write for a culture and hair blog.