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Publications
Long-form research on how family memory works, how it passes between generations, and why it disappears — grounded in sociology, history, and lived family experience.
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Why Family Memory Disappears by the Third Generation
A sociocultural analysis of the mechanisms behind the loss of family memory, communicative memory, and intergenerational transmission.
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How Families Keep Memory Alive
What allows family stories to remain meaningful, understandable, and transferable across generations
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The Photograph Without a Caption: Why a Family's Visual Archive Does Not Protect It From Oblivion
A study of the role of context in family photography, and of why even a large visual archive does not guarantee that memory survives across generations.
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The Family Archive and Memory: Under What Conditions Do Family Materials Become a Living Intergenerational History
Why the presence of photographs, documents, letters, and genealogical records does not by itself guarantee the preservation of family memory — and under what conditions an archive transcends mere storage.
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The Family Memory Keeper
Why family memory gathers around certain people, how they sustain intergenerational continuity, and what a family loses when that person is gone — not an archive, but the key to its meaning.
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