[PW] 1st BFA and PhD in theatre

[Winters, Murl]

Another approach is to go to Encyclopedia of Associations and check
theater associations. 
The American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) publishes the Directory
of Doctoral Programs in Theatre. Their Contact Us link is
http://www.astr.org/About/ContactUs/tabid/114/Default.aspx. They should
be able to answer the question. 
Murl Winters
Associate Library Director
Evangel University
Springfield, MO 65802




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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


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