Basile Baudez 

Baudez, associate professor in the Department of Art and Archaeology, specializes in Early Modern European architectural history. He is currently serving as the department’s director of undergraduate studies. Baudez joined Princeton’s faculty in 2018. Previously, he was assistant professor of architectural history at the Paris-Sorbonne University. He has also served as a visiting professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Pratt Institute. His research has been supported by grants from the Center for Advanced Studies in the Visual Arts, the Centre national de la recherche scientifique and the Getty Research Institute. Baudez is the first member of the Department of Art and Archaeology to be awarded a Cotsen fellowship.

Baudez is the author of “Architecture et Tradition Académique au Siècle des Lumières” (2012) and “Inessential Colors: Architecture on Paper in Early Modern Europe” (2021). He co-edited “Chalgrin et son temps: Architectes et Architecture de l’Ancien Régime et l’Empire à la Révolution" (2017) and “Textile in Architecture from the Middle Ages to Modernism.” Currently Baudez is working on his next book, tentatively titled “Fabricating the City: Textiles in Eighteenth-Century Venice” and co-editing with Victoria Bergbauer, Ph.D. candidate in history at Princeton, a volume titled “Carceral Architecture. From within and beyond the Prison Walls,” which will be published in summer 2025.

As a Cotsen fellow, he will launch the new undergraduate course ART 101/ VIS 101 in spring 2026, which examines themes and materials that bridge the two tracks of study offered by the department: the practice of art and the history of art. The course will feature a historian and an artist lecturing on a shared theme each week, fostering a dynamic exchange of perspectives. Ultimately, the course will offer the entire undergraduate community a holistic understanding of how, why, by whom and under what conditions art is created.

Margot Canaday 

Canaday is the Dodge Professor of History and an award-winning legal and political historian who studies gender and sexuality in modern America. Canaday, a faculty member since 2008, was one of four Princeton faculty members awarded a Graduate Mentoring Award by the McGraw Center for Teaching and Learning in 2021. The mentoring award recognizes Princeton faculty members who nurture the intellectual, professional and personal growth of their graduate students. Canaday has also won fellowships from the Social Science Research Council, the Princeton University Society of Fellows, the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Council of Learned Societies. She was elected to the Society of American Historians in 2016.

Canaday has written two books: “The Straight State: Sexuality and Citizenship in Twentieth Century America” (2009) and “Queer Career: Sexuality and Work in Modern America” (2023).

As a Cotsen fellow, Canaday said she hopes to develop three new courses. “Queer Archives” would expose students to the distinctive and fascinating problematics of the queer archive. Canaday plans to strategize with students about a variety of ways to find archival evidence and to collectively produce a guide to different kinds of sources for writing LGBTQ history that could be carried out from Princeton and nearby facilities. “The Intellectual History of Feminism” would track primary source texts in the history of feminist thought, and “The History of the Workplace” would be structured around different kinds of workplaces and cover the pre-industrial era to the present.

Tamsen Wolff 

Wolff is an associate professor in the Department of English and joined Princeton’s faculty in 2001. She specializes in modern and contemporary drama and performance, gender studies, voice, directing and dramaturgy. She was among the first to teach musical theater as a form of dramatic literature at a university and laid the groundwork for Princeton’s Program in Music Theater. Wolff was one of four faculty members to receive the President’s Awards for Distinguished Teaching at Commencement in 2023.

Wolff has worked professionally and at universities as a director and a dramaturg. She is an associate teacher of Fitzmaurice Voicework, and has taught courses and coached individuals in voice, text and public speaking. Wolff is also the author of “Mendel’s Theatre: Heredity, Eugenics, and Early Twentieth-Century American Drama” and “Juno’s Swans.”

She is currently working on a book entitled “Ev’ry Syllable She Utters: Parsing the Voice in Musical Theatre” and her second novel, “This Is a New Country.” She has published essays — on theatre audiences, gender and dramaturgy, Eugene O’Neill, Susan Glaspell, law and performance and documentary drama, among other subjects — in journals including Theatre Journal, Modern Drama, Performing Arts Journal, Theatre Topics, Theatre Forum and The Chronicle of Higher Education.

As a Cotsen fellow, Wolff will develop a sequence course featuring a fall course that focuses on a particular playwright or cluster of plays and a spring course that is an exploration and production of one of the central plays studied in the fall. In addition, Wolff will launch a world theater course that examines the role of theater and performance in humanizing and understanding global politics. The course will feature historians from units across campus in conversation with international theater artists, one of whom will direct the fall show in the theater program.