Lori Flores' research and writing focus on Latino life, labor, immigration, and food history, particularly when it comes to the US Northeast. She is an expert on the Bracero Program and Mexican guestworkers, the US farmworker rights movement, food laborers' conditions, and relationships between citizen and immigrant Latinos. She is the author of the new book Awaiting Their Feast: Latinx Food Workers and Activism from World War II to COVID-19 and Grounds for Dreaming: Mexican Americans, Mexican Immigrants, and the California Farmworker Movement. She also directs Stony Brook's Latin/x American and Caribbean Studies Center and Program.

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