sentences:  He was awarded a Master of Arts from Columbia University in 1906 where his thesis was titled, "Richard Wagner, his life and his works".During his studies at Columbia, Frachtenberg became a student of Franz Boas, often called the father of American anthropology.Frachtenberg's research centered around some of the subdivisions of what later became the Penutian language group, and he received a PhD from Columbia in 1910 for his work on the Coosan languages.