This edition: Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
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Original tape date: December 29, 2025. First aired: January 19, 2026.On this episode of CUNY Laureates, we profile another three Guggenheim Fellows who graduated from the City University of New York. City College graduate and longtime professor Frederic Tuten uses written language and painting to achieve perfect form. Brooklyn College alum Roya Hakakian fled Iran as a teenager and uses her career in journalism to confront what it has become. And Hunter College graduate Frances Barth has been practicing art for over 55 years, creating original work as part of the 1960s vanguard of New York art.
Guest List
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Tuesday, February 10 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 16 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 19 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 25 - 5:00pm
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Wednesday, February 11 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 17 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 23 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 10 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Thursday, February 12 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 18 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 24 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 26 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 11 - 5:00pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, February 13 - 7:30am
- Oscar Handlin, Gregory Pardlo, and Frank McCourt
- Friday, February 13 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 14 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 15 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, March 8 - 5:30pm
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, February 14 - 7:30am
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, February 15 - 7:30am
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, February 20 - 7:30am
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Friday, February 20 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 21 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 22 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, February 21 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, February 22 - 7:30am
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, February 27 - 7:30am
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Friday, February 27 - 5:30pm
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, February 28 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Saturday, February 28 - 5:30pm
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, March 1 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Sunday, March 1 - 5:30pm
- TBA
- Monday, March 2 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, March 3 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, March 4 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, March 5 - 5:00pm
- Monday, March 9 - 5:00pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, March 6 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, March 6 - 5:30pm
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, March 7 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Saturday, March 7 - 5:30pm
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, March 8 - 7:30am
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, Persi Diaconis, Ocean Vuong, Annie Baker, and Irving Feldman
- Sunday, February 8 - 7:30am
- Denny Moore, Vanessa Ruta, and Cristina Jiménez Moreta
- Saturday, February 7 - 7:30am
- Sylvan Fox, Ada Louise Huxtable, and Lloyd Schwartz
- Friday, February 6 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, February 7 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 8 - 5:30pm
- Maggie Nelson, Elliot Sperling, and Peter Jeffery
- Friday, February 6 - 7:30am
- Stanley Nelson, Irving Howe, and Lawrence Levine
- Sunday, February 1 - 7:30am
- David Rudovsky, Bright Sheng, and Patricia Wright
- Saturday, January 31 - 7:30am
- Inauguration Day Special: CUNY's Champions of Democracy
- Friday, January 30 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 31 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, February 1 - 5:30pm
- Eric Wolf, Pepón Osorio, and Paule Marshall
- Friday, January 30 - 7:30am
- The MacArthur Fellowship, Ben Katchor and Ada Louise Huxtable
- Sunday, January 25 - 7:30am
- Stanley Cohen, Robert Hofstadter and Brooklyn College History
- Saturday, January 24 - 7:30am
- Harold Schonberg, Annie Baker, and Howard Sackler
- Friday, January 23 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 24 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 25 - 5:30pm
- Gertrude Elion, Robert Aumann and Hunter College History
- Friday, January 23 - 7:30am
- Frederic Tuten, Roya Hakakian, and Frances Barth
- Thursday, January 22 - 5:00pm
- Monday, January 26 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 29 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, February 4 - 5:00pm
- Arthur Kornberg, Kenneth Arrow and CUNY at 175
- Sunday, January 18 - 7:30am
- Leon Lederman, Julius Axelrod, Herbert Hauptman and Jerome Karle
- Saturday, January 17 - 7:30am
- Liu Heung Shing, Bernard Malamud, and A. M. Rosenthal
- Friday, January 16 - 5:30pm
- Saturday, January 17 - 5:30pm
- Sunday, January 18 - 5:30pm
- Arno Penzias, Rosalyn Yalow and John O'Keefe
- Friday, January 16 - 7:30am
- John Yao, Sol Yurick, and Lisa Corinne Davis
- Tuesday, January 13 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, January 15 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, January 27 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 2 - 5:00pm
- Thursday, February 5 - 5:00pm
- Ralph Blumenthal, Gertrude Himmelfarb, and Stanley Milgram
- Monday, January 12 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 14 - 5:00pm
- Wednesday, January 28 - 5:00pm
- Tuesday, February 3 - 5:00pm
- Monday, February 9 - 5:00pm
- The Pulitzer Prize, Angela Hill, and Oscar Hijuelos
- Sunday, January 11 - 5:30pm
- Marvin Hamlisch, Richard Ofshe, and Upton Sinclair
- Sunday, January 11 - 7:30am
