Dr. Geniece Crawford Mondé is the Herman N. Hipp Associate professor of sociology at Furman University in Greenville, SC. Her research and writing centers the lived experiences of individuals who have been marginalized by social institutions, with a particular focus on carceral institutions. 

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.  You can read an excerpt from her book and learn more about her other research interests from her interview on Criminologists Convene.  Her latest scholarship addresses how carceral logics shape benevolent places. In examining how carceral logics inform the actions of institutional settings external to the criminal legal system, she argues that one's ex-offender identity constrains how an individual navigates society, even in spaces with the ostensible goal of offering support. 

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 The Journal of Qualitative Criminal Justice and Criminology, Social Service Review, NBC News, Sociation Today, 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.