Mark Convey, MA
Research Associate/Anthropologist, Institute for Community Research (Affiliate)
Research Overview
Mark Convey, M.A. is currently working as the Project Director for a NIDA funded project titled: Drug Use, Housing Access, Stability and HIV Risk Among Low-Income Urban Residents, at the Institute for Community Research. Mark came to ICR in 1998 as an intern while completing his B.A. in Cultural Anthropology at Central Connecticut State University. Since 1999, Mark has worked as an ethnographer on several projects at ICR, including: Pathways to High-Risk Drug Abuse Among Urban Youth; A Qualitative and Quantitative Analysis of Perceived Risk for HIV; and HIV Prevention in High-Risk Drug Use Sites: Project RAP. Later, as a research associate, he worked on Housing Status/Stability and HIV Risk Among Drug Users and the Longitudinal Study of the RAP Peer Intervention for HIV Prevention. Mark’s research interests include gender and sexuality, sexual minorities among urban ethnic minorities, substance abuse, HIV/AIDS prevention and male sex workers
Education
1985 A.S. Legal Assistant, Manchester Community College
1999 B.A. Cultural Anthropology, Central Connecticut State
University, Summa cum Laude
2005 M.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of Connecticut
Recent Publications
mark.convey@icrweb.org | |
Phone | 860.278.2044 x247 |
Mailing Address | Institute for Community Research2 Hartford Square West, Suite 100Hartford, CT 06106-5128 |