Before the end of the spring 2018 semester, East Stroudsburg University announced the Thesis of the Year Award. The award was given to Jeremy Goff for his thesis \u201cThe Ethnic Succession of Gangs and Organized Crime in Chicago, 1846-1933.\u201d Goff earned a Master of Arts in history in 2017.<\/p>\n
\u201cMr. Goff\u2019s work dives deep into the cultural background surrounding and facilitating the evolution of organized crime in Chicago from the middle of the 19th<\/sup> century right on through the Great Depression and beyond,\u201d said William Bajor, Ph.D., director of graduate and extended studies. \u201cHe has managed to expertly and eloquently weave stories of survival, tragedy and triumph into a thoroughly engaging and scholarly reading experience.\u201d<\/p>\n A committee spends the months following commencement reviewing students\u2019 work and selects the best of the best to be awarded ESU Thesis of the Year during the academic year following their graduation.<\/p>\n \u201cAs always, choosing a winning thesis from the excellent work nominated for the award was difficult.\u00a0 Mr. Goff\u2019s thesis was chosen over \u201cTwo-Phase Symmetric Key Criptographic Algorithm\u201d by Bose Omo-Ekpadi a graduate student studying computer science, and \u201cThe Effects of Artificial Sweeteners and Probiotics on the Gut Microbiome and Immune System of Mice\u201d by Andrew Bischer a graduate student studying biology, by a slim margin,\u201d said Martin Wilson, Ph.D., associate professor of history and member of the Thesis of the Year selection committee. \u201cThe committee was impressed with the high quality of the scholarship produced by ESU\u2019s graduate students.\u201d<\/p>\n Jeremy Goff earned a Bachelor of Science in education in social studies\/sociology from Shippensburg University in 2002 and began teaching history at Pleasant Valley High School. Goff currently teaches AP psychology, sociology, Pennsylvania history, modern U.S. and world history. He earned a Master of Science in classroom technology from Wilkes University in 2009. Goff began graduate level coursework at ESU in 2010. In 2015 he became part of the P.E.T. program \u2013 a program that allows partner school districts to pay the cost of tuition for their employees pursing graduate study.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Before the end of the spring 2018 semester, ESU announced the Thesis of the Year Award. The award was given to Jeremy Goff for his thesis \u201cThe Ethnic Succession of Gangs and Organized Crime in Chicago, 1846-1933.\u201d Goff earned a Master of Arts in history in 2017.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":17476,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[143,42,58],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-community","category-news-release","category-slider"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17473"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17478,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17473\/revisions\/17478"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/17476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quantum.esu.edu\/insider\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}