04/03/2026
Go spot our Pigeon in the wild!
He’ll be running some of our upcoming products, including a new one for Freedom Squadron!
ChupacabraCon is thrilled to welcome James Fielder as a Special Guest!
James "Pigeon" Fielder, Ph.D. joined Colorado State University as an Instructor after retiring from the U.S. Air Force as a Lieutenant Colonel and Associate Professor of Political Science at the U.S. Air Force Academy. Dr. Fielder 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, most recently a crisis communications exercise for Adams County, Colorado. 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. Pigeon has published and presented academic studies on EVE Online, Vampire: The Masquerade, Dungeons & Dragons, and Coyote & Crow, and his co-edited book Short Games and Active Learning in Political Science: Beating the Clock is forthcoming from Routledge in March 2026. He is also serving as a German Army Wargaming Center Fellow, a Marine Corps University Krulak Fellow for academic years 2021-2026, writes for Mobius Worlds Publishing, and consults on organizational wargaming.
Learn More at:
Web: https://jdfielder.com/
Web: https://mobiusworldspublishing.com/
Thanks for coming to my TEDx Talk! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qecV6O0AuHY