About me
James "Pigeon" Fielder, Ph.D. is a Colorado State University political scientist and Cherry Hill Seminary professor who researches emergent political behavior through tabletop, live-action, and digital gaming as natural experiments. He also has almost three 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 is a managing editor of Active Learning in Political Science, associate editor of Simulation & Gaming, on the editorial board of 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 is a member and former non-officer director of Ár nDraíocht Féin.