Mark Convey, M.A.

Research Associate/Project Director
860-278-2044 ext. 247

mark.convey@icrweb.org

Mark Convey, M.A. is a Research Associate and the Project Director for Drug Use, Housing Access, Stability and HIV Risk Among Low-Income Urban Residents.  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; HIV Prevention in High-Risk Drug Use Sites: Project RAP; 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.

Publications

2010  Convey, M., Dickson-Gomez, J., Weeks, M.R. and Li, J.H. Altruism and Peer-led HIV Prevention Targeting Heroin and Cocaine Users. Qualitative Health Research, 20(11) 1546-1557

2009  Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Hilario, H., Corbett, A.M., Weeks, M.R. and Martinez, M. The Relationship Between Housing Status and HIV Risk Among Active Drug Users: A Qualitative Analysis. Substance Use and Misuse. 44(2).

2009  Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Hilario, H., Weeks, M.R. and Corbett A.M.  Hustling and Housing: Drug Users' Strategies to Obtain Shelter and Income in Hartford, Connecticut.  Human Organization.  68(3).

2009  Dickson-Gomez, J., Cromley, E., Convey, M. and Hilario, H. How much choice is there in housing choice vouchers? Neighborhood risk and free market rental housing accessibility for active drug users in Hartford, Connecticut.  Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy.  4(5).

2009  Weeks, M.R., Convey, M., Dickson-Gomez, J., Li, J.H., Radda, K., Martinez, M. and Robles, E. Changing Drug Users’ Risk Environments: Peer Health Advocates as Multi-level Community Change Agents. American Journal of Community Psychology. 43(3-4).

2009  Weeks, M.R., Li, J.H., Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Martinez, M., Radda, K. and Clair, S. Outcomes of a Peer HIV Prevention Program with Injection Drug and Crack Users: The Risk Avoidance Partnership. Substance Use and Misuse. 44(2).

2008  Dickson-Gomez, J., Convey, M., Hilario, H., Corbett, A.M. and Weeks, M.  Structural and personal factors related to access to housing and housing stability among urban drug users in Hartford, Connecticut.  Contemporary Drug Problems.  35(Spring).

2007  Dickson-Gomez J, Convey M,  Hilario H, Corbett AM, Weeks M. Unofficial policy: access to housing, housing information and social services among homeless drug users in Hartford, Connecticut. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy.  2(1).

2006  Weeks MR, Dickson-Gomez J, Mosack KE, Convey M, Martinez, M., Clair, S. The risk avoidance partnership: Training active drug users as peer health advocates.  Journal of Drug Issues. 36(3) 541-570.        

2006  Dickson-Gomez J, Weeks M, Martinez M, Convey M.  Times and places: Process evaluation of a peer-led HIV prevention intervention. Substance Use & Misuse.  41(5)  669-690.

2005  Schensul JJ, Convey M, Burkholder G.  Challenges in measuring concurrency, agency and intentionality in polydrug research.  Addictive Behaviors.  30 (3) 571-574.

2005  Master’s Thesis:  “It's Not a Life that is Happy and Right": A Qualitative Study of Male Sex Workers in Hartford.  University of Connecticut.

Presentations

2007  HIV Risk among Male Sex Workers that have Sex with Men in a Small City.  United States Conference on AIDS, Palm Springs, CA.

2006  Housing and HIV Risk among Active Drug Users in Hartford, CT. Paper presented at the Hartford HIV Forum, Hartford CT.

2006  Housing Status and Stability: HIV Risk among Active Drug Users in Hartford, CT. Paper presented at PROVISIONS X, Mystic CT.

2004  The Risk Avoidance Partnership (RAP): Urban Drug Users as Peer Health Advocates for HIV Prevention and Intervention. Paper presented at the Third International Conference on Urban Health, Boston, MA.

2002  Straight Identified Male Sex Workers that have Sex with Men.  PROVISIONS, New Haven, CT

2001  Sugar and Ice: Is Everything Nice?  Society for Applied Anthropology, Merida, Mexico.

2000  Careers in Anthropology, Central Connecticut State University.  New Britain, CT.

1999  Lavender Languages: American University, Washington, DC.  Eastern European Youth Identity on the Internet.

1998  Academic Work in Progress Within the Connecticut State University System.  Central Connecticut State University, New Britain, CT.  An Ethnographic Life History of Gender Dysphoria and the Performative Theory of Gender.     

1998  American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting: Philadelphia, PA.  Your Turf: A Sexual Minority Youth Support Group and Violence in Connecticut Public Schools.