Smithsonian Journeys Experts

Dr. Caitlin O’Connell-Rodwell is a faculty member at Harvard Medical School at the Eaton Peabody Lab and has studied elephants in Namibia for almost thirty years, where she has a long-term field site and leads science expeditions. She has written eight popular books about elephants, along with dozens of scientific papers and many feature magazine articles, including two in Smithsonian Magazine. She taught creative science writing for Stanford and The New York Times and was the focus of the award-winning Smithsonian documentary, Elephant King. She has won numerous awards for her writing and photography. She has written a thriller series about the ivory trade based on her own experiences that has been converted in a comic series. She has blogged for The New York Times and National Geographic from her field site in Etosha National Park, Namibia. All her books include photographs that she and her husband, Tim Rodwell, have taken from their field site and elsewhere. She is published by such top houses as Houghton Mifflin, Simon & Schuster and Random House.