Helena Lopes Braga

Helena Lopes Braga holds a PhD in Comparative Gender Studies from the Central European University, Vienna. She also holds a Master´s (Best MA Award 2013/2014) and a Bachelor´s degree (Merit and Excellence Luiz Krus Award) in Musicology from the New University of Lisbon. She is a researcher of the Sociology and Musical Aesthetics Research Center (CESEM, FCSH-NOVA), where she co-founded NEGEM (Study Group on Gender and Music). Lopes Braga was vice-President of the Portuguese Society for Music Research (SPIM-PSMR) from 2013 to 2015.

Fields of study: feminist musicology, sociology of music, women’s and gender history (20th century), musical biography. Research interests include: women musicians, networks and sociabilities, women´s archives, short 20th century history.

Lopes Braga, H. (2022). Francine Benoît (1894-1990): Gender and Politics in the Shaping of a Professional Music Career and its Legacy. Doctoral Dissertation in Comparative Gender Studies. Vienna: Central European University.

Lopes Braga, H. (2021). Para a Historiografia das Maestras em Portugal: mulheres maestras sob ditadura (1926-1974). Revista Música Hodie, 21.

Lopes Braga, H. (2018). “Perigosa é… a investigação em música” in Annabela Rita & Isabel Ponce de Leão (coord.) Perigoso é… Lisboa, Porto, Viseu, Aveiro: Edições Esgotadas. Pp.117-129.

Braga, H. M. L. S. (2013). “De Francine Benoît e algumas das suas redes de sociabilidade: Invisibilidades, género e sexualidade entre 1940 e 1960”. Dissertação de Mestrado em musicologia história. Lisboa: FCSH, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.