The Resident Graduate Student (RGS) program is intended to enhance the residential college experience and help foster a fully integrated campus community that unites undergraduates of all four years, graduate students and faculty across the disciplines.
Office of the Dean of the College
How does the Edwards Collective manage to pull off so many rich and exciting events? The Resident Graduate Student program! Throughout the academic year, two graduate students help Collective members plan visits to exhibits and facilitate performances. In addition to external events, Edwards Collective RGSs also host regular brunches and run bi-weekly study breaks. Feel free to reach out to them with inquiries into Collective life!
I believe learning is a communal event… [The Collective] explicitly makes communal life its purpose. And that’s a double blessing for me in my role as a RGS of the Edwards Collective.
-Denis Z. (previous Edwards RGS)
Peter Benson (pbenson@) hails from the coast of Virginia. He’s an introvert but occasional performer, an amateur photographer of off-the-map locations, and a writer. As a certified scuba diver he’s swum with sharks and barracudas and found them to be delightful companions. His nieces and nephews describe him as a storyteller and voice-actor.
A 5th year in the English department, Peter studies eighteenth-century literature, theology, and speculative fiction. Prior to his current studies he attained masters degrees in divinity and literature. Ask him about ghosts and androids.
Ipsita Dey (idey@) is a 6th year Ph.D. Candidate in Anthropology at Princeton. She loves trying and learning new things – this year, she wants to re-learn how to play the piano, so you may hear her playing chopsticks in the Mathey Common Room. Ipsita is an Odissi dancer (Indian classical dance), a 2nd degree black belt in MMA, and an amateur surfer.
As a scholar, Ipsita is interested in sensorial experiences of the environment and how these intimate sensory understandings of a place are shifting due to environmental and climate precarity. She has conducted long term ethnographic fieldwork for her dissertation in Sigatoka, Fiji. Ipsita can speak English, Hindi, Bengali, and Fiji Baat.