Cassie Brand
Contact
- Department
- Library
- Name
- Cassie Brand
- Pronouns
- she/her
- Job Title
- Curator of Rare Books
- Email Address
- cassie.brand@wustl.edu
- Phone Number
- (314) 935-4950
Collecting Area
Rare books
Bio
Cassie has been the Curator of Rare Books at the WashU Libraries since 2017. She enjoys sharing rare books with others through outreach programs, teaching classes, and curating exhibits. Her research focuses on the intersection of the book as a physical and cultural object and the histories of book collecting and libraries. Cassie received her library degree from Indiana University in 2011 and is working on a PhD. Cassie’s dissertation, which is in progress, is tentatively titled “How Books Became Rare: The History of Special Collections in America 1880–1940.”
Selected Projects, Activities, Accomplishments
- WashU Libraries Book Club
- Bookmaking workshops
- Exhibits: Bound for Beauty; Secret Sciences: The Hidden Arts of Alchemy; Fakes, Forgeries, and Forbidden Books; Declaration of Independence
- Events: Bound for Beauty (YouTube); Returning Home: Repatriation of Jewish Books Confiscated During WWII (YouTube); Why So Small? (YouTube)
Services Include
- Identifies and provides library tools, resources, and services that meet your research needs.
- Develops effective instruction and learning materials for courses and disciplines.
- Cultivates, maintains, and manages collections of greatest value to the WashU community.