Myron L. Cohen's research has focused on Han Chinese culture and society during late imperial and modern times. His fieldwork in Taiwan and in villages in northern, eastern, and western mainland China has been concerned with uncovering commonalities and variation among widely separated Hakka and Han Chinese communities, especially with respect to family and community arrangements. Professor Cohen is the author of House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan (1976). He edited Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching (1992) and contributed numerous chapters to edited volumes and journals, including more recent publications like "Ethnicity and the Degree-Holding Elite in Qing-Era Taiwan: The 1803 Restoration of the Prefectural Confucian Temple" in Family, Ethnicity, and State in Chinese Culture Under the Impact of Globalization (2017), edited by Han Min, Kawai Hironao, and Wong Heung Wah; and "High Ancestors among the Hakka Chinese: Past and Present, Rural, Urban, and Global," for Global Hakka Studies (2017). Professor Cohen was the seventh director of the East Asian Institute (renamed the Weatherhead East Asian Institute in 2003) and served for two terms, from 1975 to 1976 and from 2006 to 2014. As Director, he led the Institute through several major milestones, including events commemorating its sixtieth anniversary in Beijing, Tokyo, and Seoul.

孔邁隆教授的研究聚焦於东亚文化與社會，時間範疇涵蓋明清時期至現代。他在臺灣及中國大陸村落的田野調查聚焦于家庭與社群組織。孔教授著有《家的合與分 — 臺灣的漢人家庭制度》（House United, House Divided: The Chinese Family in Taiwan, 1976）。此外，他主編《亞洲問題的社會科學研究：教學指南》（Asia Case Studies in the Social Sciences: A Guide for Teaching, 1992），並於多部編著論文集及學術期刊發表文章。近年出版作品包括〈族群與清代臺灣士紳：1803年府城文廟重修〉（刊於《全球化衝擊下的中國文化：家庭、族群與國家》，2017，Han Min, Kawai Hironao, and Wong Heung Wah主編），以及〈客家人的高祖：過去與現在、鄉村、城市與全球〉（刊於《全球客家研究》，2017）。孔教授曾兩度擔任哥倫比亞大學東亞研究所所長，任期分別為1975年至1976年與2006年至2014年。在任內，他引領研究所完成多項重要里程碑，包括於北京、東京與首爾舉辦六十週年紀念活動。