This edition: Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
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Original tape date: March 1, 2024. First aired: April 1, 2024.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three MacArthur Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. Maggie Nelson’s genre-bending books were shaped by her early years in New York City and at the Graduate Center. Elliot Sperling’s wanderlust as a youth started him on a journey to become one of the world’s preeminent scholars of Tibetan history. And we learn how Peter Jeffery’s passion for Gregorian chants led to a lifetime of research in the field of musicology.
Guest List
Peter Jeffery Professor of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, University of Notre Dame
Maggie Nelson Writer
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Sunday, July 20 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Sunday, July 20 - 5:30pm
- Thursday, July 24 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, August 6 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 8 - 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Monday, July 21 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 31 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 1 - 5:30pm
- Wednesday, August 13 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, August 16 - 5:30pm
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Tuesday, July 22 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, August 2 - 5:30pm
- Monday, August 4 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 14 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 17 - 5:30pm
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Wednesday, July 23 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 3 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, August 5 - 5:00pm
- Monday, August 18 - 5:00pm
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Friday, July 25 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, July 25 - 5:30pm
- Monday, July 28 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, August 7 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, August 9 - 5:30pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Saturday, July 26 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Saturday, July 26 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, July 29 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, August 10 - 5:30pm
- Monday, August 11 - 5:00pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Sunday, July 27 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Sunday, July 27 - 5:30pm
- Wednesday, July 30 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, August 12 - 5:00pm
- Friday, August 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, August 17 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Friday, August 1 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Saturday, August 2 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Sunday, August 3 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Friday, August 8 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Saturday, August 9 - 7:30am
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Sunday, August 10 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Friday, August 15 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Saturday, August 16 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Saturday, July 12 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Friday, July 11 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Sunday, July 6 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Saturday, July 5 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Wednesday, July 2 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, July 6 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, July 15 - 5:00pm
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Tuesday, July 1 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, July 5 - 5:30pm
- Monday, July 14 - 5:00pm
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Monday, June 30 - 5:00pm
- Friday, July 4 - 5:30pm
- Thursday, July 10 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, July 19 - 5:30pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Saturday, June 28 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Friday, June 27 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Thursday, June 26 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, June 29 - 5:30pm
- Wednesday, July 9 - 5:00pm
- Friday, July 18 - 5:30pm
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Wednesday, June 25 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, June 28 - 5:30pm
- Tuesday, July 8 - 5:00pm
- Sunday, July 13 - 5:30pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Tuesday, June 24 - 5:00pm
- Friday, June 27 - 5:30pm
- Monday, July 7 - 5:00pm
- Saturday, July 12 - 5:30pm
- Thursday, July 17 - 5:00pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Monday, June 23 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, July 3 - 5:00pm
- Friday, July 11 - 5:30pm
- Wednesday, July 16 - 5:00pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, June 22 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, July 19 - 7:30am
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Sunday, June 22 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, June 21 - 5:30pm
- Friday, July 18 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, June 21 - 7:30am
- Friday, July 4 - 7:30am
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, June 20 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, July 13 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, June 20 - 7:30am
- Sunday, June 29 - 7:30am
