•The
Rev. Dr. Cheryl A. Kirk-Duggan
•Professor
of Theology and Women’s studies at Shaw University Divinity School,
Raleigh, NC,
•Ordained
Elder in the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church.
•Author
of over 20 books, including
Violence and Theology,
her edited
The Sky is Crying: Racism, Classism, and Natural Disaster,
both Abingdon, 2006; and Wake Up: Hip Hop, Christianity, & the Black
Church,
due out June 2011
•Degrees:
B.A., Magna Cum Laude,
in Voice
&
Piano;
Master of Music in Voice,
Master of Divinity
Doctor of Philosophy in Religion.
•Memberships
in numerous professional guilds
•Series
Editor for the Greenwood/Praeger Women and Religion Book Series
•Featured
in Malka Drucker’s
White Fire: A Portrait of Women Spiritual Leaders in America,
Skylight Paths, 2003
•2009
recipient of the Excellence in Academic Research Award, Shaw
University.
•Current
research : interdisciplinary from hip hop and justice to Bible and
culture; women's religious and leadership experience; to rage,
grief, and transformation; music an sexuality
•Known
for her 6 P’s as: professor, preacher, priest, prophet, poet, and
performer
