Sodikoff is a cultural anthropologist interested in the political economy of biodiversity loss, conservation, and restoration with extensive research on labor and rain forest conservation in Madagascar. Her book , Forest and Labor in Madagascar: From Colonial Concession to Global Biosphere (Indiana University Press, 2012), is an anthropological-historical account of the role of subaltern labor in forest conservation and ecotourism efforts. She is currently examining the problem of land degradation and zoonosis, disease that spills over from animal species to humans. The current project is a multispecies epidemiology of the plague in villages of the Moramanga district in eastern Madagascar, where an outbreak of pneumonic plague occurred in 2015 and risks recurring.