Frederick M Denny
Frederick Mathewson Denny is Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies and History of Religions in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado at Boulder. A Vermont native, he is an alumnus of the College of William and Mary and Andover Newton Theological School. He holds advanced degrees from the University of Chicago and has previously served on the faculties at Yale University and the University of Virginia. He has conducted extensive field research and published scholarly articles on Qur’an chanting in Egypt and Indonesia. He has served on the BBF Board of Directors for eleven years and has also been a longtime member of the BBF chorus. Denny is also a member of the Colorado Recorder Orchestra, plays trombone in the Niwot Free Grange Semi-Marching Band, and sings in the choir of the Boulder Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship in Lafayette, where he also serves on the “Sundays at Four” musical concerts committee.
