Field is a historian interested in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, he has two primary lines of research. The first of these includes examinations – primarily historical – of global sporting events as sites of resistance and protest. In one project he is examining the history of the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO), which is an excellent example of the convergence of Cold War rhetoric, Second World tensions, and the politics of Third World de-colonization. His second line of research, examines cultural representations of sport and physical activity found in both narrative and documentary films.