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 institutional service. 

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 Black 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.  She is the recipient of the Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize from for her research on Black women and the Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty award for her service to her campus.

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 the rural mountain parish of Manchester, Jamaica, in the city of Mandeville, Geniece immigrated with her parents to Queens, NY as a young child.* A proud product of the New York City public education system, Geniece earned her bachelor of arts degree in sociology from the State University of New York-Binghamton.  Her master of arts and doctorate degrees, both in sociology,  are from Harvard University. In a former life she used to write for a culture and hair blog. To see her commentary on the criminal legal system and other interviews, you can review the "Media" tab.

*Fun fact: Manchester parish in Jamaica is the only parish on the island not located on coastline or proximate to a river.