Susan L. Buck, Ph.D.
Conservator of Painted Surfaces and Architectural Materials, Supplemental Faculty
Susan L. Buck is a conservator in private practice specializing in the analysis and conservation of painted surfaces on wooden object and architectural materials. She has a BA with concentration in studio art from Williams College and an MBA from Boston University. Her dissertation study of the architectural paints at the Aiken-Rhett House in Charleston, SC was awarded the University of Delaware Wilbur Owen Sypherd Prize for the outstanding doctoral dissertation in the Humanities in 2003. After completing her MS she worked for seven years at the SPNEA Conservation Center as a furniture conservator and microscopist before entering the University of Delaware Ph.D. Program in Art Conservation Research. She has taught cross-section microscopy analysis and alternative cleaning system methods in the WUDPAC program for four years and supervised graduate interns since 1995. She brings real-world projects into the classroom, including the analysis of finish samples from a 1780 Chinese house, wallpapers and paints found trapped in the walls at Montpelier, and exterior paint samples from Colonial Williamsburg.
