Geniece Crawford Mondé

Geniece Crawford Mondé is an award-winning sociologist of crime, race, gender, and culture. Her research and teaching interests include community-law enforcement interactions, mass incarceration (with a focus on women enmeshed within the criminal legal system), minority women, Black cultural identity, and deliberative justice. She is the recipient of the Toni Cade Bambara Prize for her research and the recipient of Martin Luther King Jr. Faculty award (Wingate University), which recognized her institutional service.

Born in the rural mountain city of Mandeville, Jamaica and raised in Queens, New York, Geniece is the first in her family to earn a college degree in the United States. At Furman, she teaches courses in criminology and sociology. Her expertise in race, culture and crime has made her a sought after expert and she has appeared on television and news programs, both locally and nationally.

She is the author of This is Our Freedom: Motherhood in the Shadow of the American Prison System (University of California Press), which chronicles the experiences of formerly incarcerated mothers. She is also the co-editor of Spaces for Resistance: Black Feminist Theory and Praxis in Academia and Beyond, (Bloomsbury), which explores how Black feminism shapes the intellectual and cultural spaces where Black women live, love and work. Her scholarship has also appeared in several peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and public-facing outlets. She is an active and engaged member in volunteer and non-profit organizations that serve the city of Greenville.

Geniece enjoys teaching and mentoring students from all walks of life, who are seeking ways to stretch their understanding of the social world. Guiding her approach to teaching, research and service is the unyielding belief that integrity and authenticity far outlast intellect and power. She is a firm believer that a sociological praxis void of empathy and respect for the powerless holds little value.

Honors & Awards

• Toni Cade Bambara Article Prize
• Herman N. Hipp Associate Professorship; Martin Luther King, Jr. Faculty Recognition Award (Wingate University)
• Teaching Innovation Grant (Wingate University)
• The Center for Culture, Immigration and Youth Violence Prevention, University of California-Berkeley (Grant)
• Rappaport Institute for Greater Boston Research Grant

Education

• Ph.D., Harvard University
• B.A., State University of New York at Binghamton