Arthur J. Vidich (1922-2006) was a long-term member of the faculty at the New School for Social Research as a professor of Sociology (1960-1991). He published dozens of books, papers, and edited anthologies, notably Small Town in Mass Society: Class, Power, and Religion in a Rural Community (1958). This collection contains material documenting his teaching, writing, lectures, and other academic and professional work spanning his entire career.

Included are correspondence with colleagues, friends, and presses; manuscript and typescript drafts of his writings; conference and lecture materials; subject files relating to his colleagues and personal life; and items pertaining to his teaching at the New School and other institutions, as well as his role as chair of the New School Sociology Department; photographs; and audio and video recordings of lectures, talks, and courses.

Frieda Wunderlich (1884-1965) was a member of the University-in-Exile (also known as the Graduate Faculty, and later as the New School for Social Research). A professor, public official and editor of an anti-Nazi magazine in her native Germany, Wunderlich came to the New School in 1933 and continued her social and economic research while teaching into the 1950s. The collection consists of files and topically-themed notebooks.

This collection consists of the papers of Jeffrey Goldfarb, the Michael E. Gellert Professor of Sociology at The New School. The collection contains teaching files; materials relating to Goldfarb's work in Poland; correspondence; and manuscripts for Goldfarb's published books. Also included are manuscripts of papers delivered at conferences, book reviews, prospectuses, and materials relating to Goldfarb's studies at the University of Chicago.

Also found herein are materials pertaining to the Democracy Seminar, including forty-six audiocassettes primarily ranging from 1984-1989. Among printed material included in this collection are eleven issues of a mini-magazine published by Bread and Puppet Theater condensing newspaper reports of the Vietnam War into handmade pictorial narratives.

The collection consists of print theses submitted to the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research, as partial fulfillment of the requirements for the Master of Social Science (MSS) degree. The theses in this collection span the years 1936 to 1984, with the earliest representing the first scholarship produced by students of the New School for Social Research.

Collection consists of theses submitted by graduate students in the New School for Social Research's Master of Arts Liberal Studies program.

This collection consists of audio and video recordings of class discussions, guest lecturers, and special events programmed by the Human Relations Center at The New School, a long-running program organized by women and directed primarily toward the personal, social and career development of women.