Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan (born 24 July 1951) is an African-American womanist theologian, professor, author, poet, and an elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
[3] Kirk-Duggan earned a Master of Divinity degree from Austin Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
[8] She has also authored the essay on "Sacred and Secular in African American Music" in the Oxford Handbook of Religion and the Arts.
A. Brenda Anderson, writing a review for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion, notes, "The great merit of Women & Christianity is the editors' ability to weave the diverse voices—the critiques as well as the hopes—from their numerous Christian feminist networks into a cohesive academic analysis without losing the uniqueness and fluidity of personal circumstances.
The first, It's in the Blood: A Trilogy of Poetry Harvested from a Family Tree, was co-authored with Deurie V. Kirk and Alice Kirk-Blackburn.
[13] In 2013, she won the Mentor Award from the Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession at the Society for Biblical Literature.