[PW] 1st BFA and PhD in theatre

[Dennis Lien]

At 02:14 PM 8/18/2008, you wrote:

>I am looking for the dates and educational institutions that offered the
>1st BFA, and PhD in theater in the United States.
>
>Thank you,
>Maria Carpenter
>m.carpenter at neu.edu

The earliest US PhD I can find in Digital Dissertation with dept. name
or subject name given as either theater or theatre is this one, but I'm
not sure the "subject" appears in the original dissertation as opposed
to being DD's after-the-fact addition:

THE VALUE OF MUSIC AS A DRAMATIC ELEMENT
by WARTHIN, ALDRED SCOTT, Ph.D., University of Michigan, 1893; AAT 0184649
Indexing (document details)
School: University of Michigan
School Location:        United States -- Michigan
Source: ADD 0127
Source type:    Dissertation
Subjects:       Theater

Yale and the University of Chicago each show several dissertations with
theater as a given subject in the first decade of the 20th century,
with same provisio.  By around 1910 they start to become rather plentiful.

For what it's worth...

Dennis Lien / U of Minnesota Libraries // d-lien at umn.edu