Pigeon

James "Pigeon" Fielder, Ph.D. is a political scientist at Colorado State University and retired from the U.S. Air Force as a lieutenant colonel and associate professor at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Pigeon is also Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2023, is the director of professional and educational games for Mobius Worlds Publishing, and consults on organizational wargaming, crisis response exercises, and scenario planning.

Pigeon researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through cyber-based interaction and through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments. He also has over two decades of experience designing, executing, and assessing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging 5,000+ participants. He roosts on the editorial boards of Simulation & Gaming and The MORS Journal of Wargaming, was a TEDxMileHigh speaker on games, and has been interviewed on game-related topics by Reuters, USA Today, and NBC News. He received his military callsign (or nickname) for having pet pigeons, including one bird, Heathcliff, that he's had since 1996!