{"id":645,"date":"2026-03-20T16:31:58","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:31:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/?post_type=team-member&#038;p=645"},"modified":"2026-03-20T16:31:59","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T15:31:59","slug":"dr-james-pigeon-fielder","status":"publish","type":"team-member","link":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/team-member\/dr-james-pigeon-fielder\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. James &#8222;Pigeon&#8220; Fielder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Dr. James \u201ePigeon\u201c Fielder&nbsp;<\/strong>joined Colorado State University as an Instructorafter retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. He is also serving as a Marine Corps University Non-Resident Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2026 and consults on organizational wargaming. He holds a Ph.D. inPolitical Science from The University of Iowa.<br>\u200d<br>He researches interpersonal trust and emergent political processes through tabletop and live-action gaming as natural experiments. He has over 25 years of experience designing training exercises and wargames, from small-group tabletop discussions to multi-day exercises engaging 5,000+ participants.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph translation-block\">He is a managing editor of Active Learning in Political Science, associate editor of Simulation &amp; Gaming, on the editorial board of The MORS Journal of Wargaming, was a TEDx speaker on games, and has been interviewed on game-related topics by Reuters,USA Today, and NBC News. Pigeon is also a topic instructor for the MORSCertificates in Wargaming and Cyber Wargaming.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He received his militarycallsign (or nickname) for having pet pigeons.&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"featured_media":322,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":true},"class_list":["post-645","team-member","type-team-member","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member\/645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/team-member"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/team-member"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/322"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/germanwargamingcenter.eu\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}