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El Palacio Magazine Welcomes
New Managing Editor Cynthia
Baughman
(Santa Fe, NM April
20, 2010)-In the past six months, El Palacio
has bid its share of fond farewells and welcome aboards.
With Cheryle Mano Mitchell's retirement after two stints
as managing editor-from 1989-2004 and 2007-09-Santa Fe
editor, author, and journalist Carmella Padilla stepped
in to guest-edit several editions. Padilla departs with
the current issue. Both Mano and Padilla will continue
to work with El Palacio as editorial and special
project consultants, particularly on the magazine's
100-year anniversary in 2013.
Now filling the
magazine's managing editor shoes is Cynthia Baughman,
whom we welcomed to Santa Fe this spring after she
relocated here from Douglassville, Pennsylvania.
Baughman grew up in Washington, D.C. and spent her teen
summers working at the Smithsonian Institution and the
Folger Shakespeare Library. While earning her B.A. from
Dartmouth College, she studied bookbinding at the
Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts in London and
apprenticed in the conservation department of the
Library of the Boston Athenaeum. She received an M.A.
in English and an M.F.A. in Creative Writing from
Cornell University.
Baughman was awarded
residencies at the MacDowell Colony, the Djerassi
Foundation, the Ucross Foundation, and the Ragdale
Foundation, and received a fellowship in fiction writing
from the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts. She
has taught film and literary criticism and writing at
Ithaca College in upstate New York and Temple University
in Philadelphia. Her credits also include writing
feature magazine, Web, and scholarly articles, and short
fiction published by Harcourt Brace and Soho Press.
Baughman has edited arts publications, scholarly
journals, and a book of feminist cultural criticism,
"Women on Ice" (NY: Routledge, 1995). Her general
interest essays have appeared in a variety of
publications, and her photojournalism has appeared in
the New York Times and Travel and Leisure
magazine.
Most recently, she
researched and wrote the screenplay for the forthcoming
new documentary film, Top Secret Rosies: The Female
"Computers" Who Helped Win World War II. The film
tells the story of one hundred young women
mathematicians who were recruited during World War II to
work in a secret ballistics laboratory established by
the US Army at the University of Pennsylvania. The
ENIAC, the first electronic computer, was developed out
of this lab, and six of the women were recruited to
become its first programmers. The project has a New
Mexico connection: the first problem run on the ENIAC
was for two Los Alamos scientists who visited the ENIAC
during the summer and fall of 1945, and in the post-war
years, two mathematicians associated with the ENIAC,
Adele and Herman Goldstine, consulted at Los Alamos.
A chance trip to Santa Fe
in 1994 led Baughman to a long-distance love affair with
the city and state, and a membership in the Museum of
New Mexico Foundation. She says, "I am thrilled to be
joining the team that produces El Palacio, a
magazine I've enjoyed and admired from afar for years.
Its long history documenting the artistic and cultural
treasures of New Mexico is awe-inspiring."
Baughman's mother is
already a Santa Fe resident. Soon to arrive is her
husband, Dr. James D. Mickle Jr., a board-certified
lipidologist (a specialist in the prevention, diagnosis,
and treatment of atherosclerosis) who plans to establish
a practice in Santa Fe, Cholesterol Studies and
Treatment West. Baughman's step-children both work in
the film industry and she hopes that production designer
Elizabeth Mickle and writer-director Jim Mickle will
find themselves on New Mexico movie sets one of these
days.
Look for Baughman's first issue of
El Palacio this fall.
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