Casey Mallinckrodt is an assistant object conservator at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts where her primary focus is the technical analysis and conservation of the Historic Arts of Africa. She received an MA from the UCLA/Getty Program in the Conservation of Archaeological & Ethnographic Materials and an MFA in sculpture from Yale University. She was a Kress Fellow in Object Conservation at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, worked at the Museums of New Mexico in Santa Fe, the State Antiquities Museum of the Netherlands in Leiden, and on the Coffin Conservation Project at Tel el Amarna Egypt.