As a historian interested in the socio-cultural study of sport and physical activity, Field has two primary lines of research. The first examines global sporting events, often ones that are lesser known but take on the form of larger games such as the Olympics, where athletes compete teams under their “nation’s” flag. This program of research includes a number of projects that examine both historical and contemporary examples of global sporting events, including the 1963 Games of the New Emerging Forces (GANEFO) in Djakarta, Indonesia, and more current events such as the VIVA World Cup and the Homeless World Cup. Field also has an interest in the cultural representations of sport and physical activity found in both narrative and documentary films. He both teaches and writes about sport film, and is founder and executive director of the Canadian Sport Film Festival (www.sportfilmfestival.ca). His recent work focuses on spectators, from both historical and contemporary perspectives. Field’s doctoral research was a study of hockey spectators at Toronto’s Maple Leaf Gardens and New York’s Madison Square Gardens in the 1930s: who they were, how they spectated, and what the experience meant to them. As a historian of sport, Field recognizes that Winnipeg and Manitoba offer a perfect setting to broaden our historical understanding of the development of Canadian sport and physical activity and he has begun a number of smaller local sport history projects.