Geniece Crawford Mondé is an award winning sociologist of justice, race, gender, and culture. A community engaged scholar, her research and teaching interests include community-law enforcement interactions, mass incarceration (with a focus on women enmeshed within the criminal legal system), Black feminist theory, Black cultural identity, and deliberative justice. She is the Herman N. Hipp Professor of Sociology at Furman University. Previously, she was Associate Professor of Sociology at Wingate University, where she also served as a department chair and the Assistant Dean of the Honors College. She is the recipient of the Toni Cade Bambara Prize from the Black Women's Studies Association for her research and the recipient of Wingate University's Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty award, which recognized her institutional service.

She is the author of This is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System (2022, University of California Press). In the book she examines how women navigate life after prison, managing the constraints of societal exclusion, while centering their love towards their children.  Her anthology, Spaces for Resistance: Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia and Beyond, (2026, Bloomsbury) explores how Black feminism shapes the intellectual and cultural spaces where Black women live, love and work. 

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. Geniece is committed to sharing her research beyond the page and has appeared numerous times on the local news. She has also appeared on several episodes of Fatal Attraction: Last Words as an expert commentator, examining the experiences of Black women victims of violent crime.

One of Geniece's 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 resident tutor, residing with and advising undergraduate students 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 graduate of the New York City K-12 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 was a writer for a culture and hair blog (Fun fact: She once interviewed actress, writer and producer Issa Rae and her hair stylist, Felicia Leatherwood!).  

Outside of work, her life is filled with the joy (and messiness) of  raising young children with her spouse. She also finds joy in reading novels, volunteering, serving on the board of directors of a local non-profit, and training towards her second dan (second degree) black belt in Taekwondo (WT).