Biography
Cynthia L. Baron is the Academic Director of the Digital Media graduate program. She teaches Foundations of Digital Storytelling and Thesis Proposal Preparation in the program. Baron was previously Associate Director of the undergraduate Multimedia Studies program and a lecturer in the Department of art+design at Northeastern University. She has been active in the creative community for most of her professional life.
Baron was the executive vice-president of Serif & Sans, a Boston-based design studio, for over a decade. She has written for many publications, been a series editor for Rockport Publishers and a contributing editor to the design practice magazine Critique and for Computer Graphics World. She has edited, authored or co-authored over a dozen books, including Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths and Fauxtography and Designing a Digital Portfolio for New Riders, a division of Pearson Education, which for many years was the standard textbook in the field.
She served for two years as Vice Chair of the Faculty Academic Council in the College of Professional Studies and was Chair of its Agenda Committee. She served on the CPS Academic Promotions Committee for three years and as the Committee Chair in 2022-23. She has served on the CPS Academic Standing Committee since 2023.
Selected Publications
- 2010 Designing a Digital Portfolio, Second Edition, Voices That Matter, New Riders/Pearson Education. Book also published by Peachpit Press in Kindle edition. In addition to being the author, also the book’s graphic designer.
- 2009 Encyclopedia of Play Rodney P. Carlisle, editor, SAGE Reference (contributor)
- 2007 Adobe Photoshop Forensics: Sleuths, Truths and Fauxtography, Thomson Course Technology
- 2005 FileMaker Pro 7 Advanced for Windows and Macintosh, with Daniel Peck, Visual QuickPro Guide, Peachpit Press (also published by Peachpit Press in French)
- 2005 FileMaker Pro 7 Manual Avanzado, with Daniel Peck, Ediciones Anaya Multimedia (Spanish translation, new publisher)
- 2004 Digital Photography Field Guide, with Daniel Peck, Peachpit Press
- 2005 Digital fotografering i praktiken, with Daniel Peck, Pagina Forlags AB (Swedish edition, new publisher, 2005)
- 2004 Designing a Digital Portfolio, Voices That Matter, New Riders/Pearson Education In addition to being the author, also the book’s graphic designer.
- 2004 Crea y presenta tu Portfolio Digital, Ediciones Anaya Multimedia (Spanish translation, new publisher)
- 2003 Book Editor: Designing Web Site Interface Elements, by Eric Eaton, Rockport Publishers and Peachpit Press.
- 2003 FileMaker Pro 6 Advanced, with Daniel Peck, Peachpit Press (also published by Peachpit Press in French)
- 2003 Click This! Getting Your Digital Photos Just Right with Daniel Peck, Peachpit Press
- 2003 The Little Digital Camera Book, with Daniel Peck, Peachpit Press (also published by Peachpit Press in Russian)
- 2003 La Mia Nuova Machina fotographica digitale, with Daniel Peck, Mondadori Informatica (Italian translation, new publisher)
- 2002 Book Editor: Designing Web Sites that Sell, by Shayne Bowman and Chris Willis, Rockport Publishers and Peachpit Press
- 2001 FileMaker Pro 5.5 Advanced, with Daniel Peck, Peachpit Press
- 2001 The Illustrator 9 Wow! Book by Sharon Steuer, Contributor, Revision Copyeditor: Peachpit Press,
- 2000 FileMaker Pro 5 Advanced, with Daniel Peck Peachpit Press
- 1999 Windows for Mac Users, with Robin Williams, Peachpit Press (also published by Peachpit Press in Chinese)
- 1997 Web Animation for Dummies, with Renee LeWinter, IDG Books, Dummies Press
- 1996 Creating a Digital Portfolio, Macmillan, Hayden Book division
