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Dr. Jocelyn Alcantara Garcia

University of Delaware
Associate Professor
Newark, DE
Dr. Jocelyn Alcántara-García (she/her/ella​) joined the University of Delaware’s Department of Art Conservation in the fall of 2014 after working for about five years in interdisciplinary projects – predominantly in Mexico, where she was born. Since 2023, she also has a joint appointment with the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry. Her projects remain cross- and interdisciplinary, collaborating with conservators, historians, chemometricians, other scientists, artists, etc.
Jocelyn studied Conservation for two years at the National School of Conservation, Restoration and Museography (ENCRyM) and received a B. S. and a Ph. D. in (Inorganic) Chemistry from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). Prior to joining UD, she was at the Brno University of Technology in the Czech Republic (VUT, internship in polymers), the National Museum of Contemporary Art Reina Sofia (MNCARS conservation science fellow, Spanish Ministry of Culture), and completed postdoctoral research at Johns Hopkins University (JHU) as an Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow.  Jocelyn is both a Phi Kappa Phi and Sigma Xi member.
​​​Her research interests revolve around material culture and are divided into three broad categories, mostly involving textiles and/or archival materials: (1) forensic analysis; (2) reverse engineering and degradation mechanisms; and (3) innovative approaches to nondestructively study cultural heritage. In addition, she is active in creating new pedagogies to attract and retain people to STEM fields. You can find her at the Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library with WUDPAC students and doing research; in Old College with ARTC undergrads; and in Lamont DuPont/Brown/Drake with students from Chemistry and Biochemistry.
You can find her TEDx talk on the YouTube TEDx channel, and her research on Google Scholar, Research Gate, and ORCID.​​​​
Wednesday, May 30
 

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Thursday, May 31
 

9:00am MDT

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Friday, June 1
 

8:30am MDT

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02. (Objects) Electroplated silver during a re-lacquering campaign at Winterthur: treatment and analytical insights Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Tia Polidori • Katelyn Rovito • Rosie Grayburn 03. (Objects) THEOPHILUS ON THE HARDENING OF STEEL FILES Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Katrina Zacharias • Aaron Shugar • Jonathan Thornton 04. (Wooden Artifacts) Investigating the Renaissance Marriage Chest: A Study of the Methods and Materials Used in the Construction of Two Florentine Cassoni from the Workshop of Paolo Uccello Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Sydney Beall • Irma Passeri 06. (Book and Paper) Ain’t No Mountain High Enough: Treatment of a board game with iron corrosion Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session) 09. (Book and Paper) An Experimental Gel-Based Treatment of Iron Gall Ink Corrosion Halos: Sodium Metabisulfite and Diethylene Triamine Pentaacetic Acid Solution in Agarose Gel Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Kelly M Conlin • Rosaleen Hill • Alison Murray 11. (Archaeological Conservation) Conservation in a Changing Climate: Examining the Effects of Ocean Acidification on Submerged Wooden Artifacts Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Annabelle Fichtner 12. (Textiles) A preliminary evaluation of lining and surface patching techniques for doped aircraft fabric Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Lauren M. Gottschlich • Lauren Horelick 13. (Research and Technical Studies) Sticking with it: Following up on HSC’s effort to develop a user-driven adhesives database Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Andrea KI Hall • Andrea KI Hall • Molly McGath • Dr. Patricia McGuiggan 14. (Research and Technical Studies) Gamma Radiation of Cultural Heritage in Disaster Response Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Molly McGath • Jenn Foltz Cruickshank • Andrea KI Hall • Dr. Patricia McGuiggan 16. (Textiles) Using SEM to Examine Metal Threads from the King's Bed (1672) at Knole House Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Erin Murphy 23. (Collection Care) Biblio-Archaeology: A Codicological Inventory, Condition Survey and Preservation Needs Assessment of Pre-Modern Codices and Incunabula in the Rare Books and Manuscripts Collection of the OSU... Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Danielle Demmerle 24. (Book and Paper) Pineapple Paper - A New Material from Taiwan for Paper Conservation Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Ting-Fu FAN 范定甫 27. (Research and Technical Studies) The Permeation of Vapors through Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Dr. Patricia McGuiggan • Andrea KI Hall • Molly McGath • William Minter 31. (Research and Technical Studies) Degradation makers of cellulose acetate during aging Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Liu Liu • Lukasz Bratasz 40. (Book and Paper) Extraction and Analysis of DNA from Renaissance-Style Prepared Paper Texas Ballroom (Foyer outside Ballrooms - Poster Session)Manija Kazmi • Thomas P. Sakmar • Karina C. Åberg • Thomas Huber • Rhonda K. Roby
 
Saturday, June 2
 

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