M Susan Barger

M Susan Barger is a community board member at Conserv and a professor at Johns Hopkins University. M has also worked as a connecting to collections care community coordinator at The Foundation of the Advancement in Conservation and as a manager at Small Museum Pro!. Barger has been teaching classes in the Conservation Science program and running the Surface Analytical Laboratory at Johns Hopkins University since 1986. Her research is concerned with the effects of re-sizing treatments in paper conservation.

Dr. M. Susan Barger has a PhD in Materials Science from The Pennsylvania State University, as well as a Certificate in Preservation of Earthen Architecture from CRATerre-School of Architecture at the University of Grenoble in France. M also holds an MST in School for American Craftsmen, Textiles from Rochester Institute of Technology, and a BA in Art/French from Immaculate Heart College, where they graduated cum laude.