Da Silva Gabriel Awarded a Wakeham Fellowship

Graduate Studies at UC Davis has awarded a Wakeham Summer Research Fellowship to Mariana Da Silva Gabriel, who will be mentored by Professor Rachana Vajjhala as part of the fellowship. A Ph.D. candidate in musicology, Mariana’s project (“Rehearing Resistance: Political Listening and Musical Meaning Under Portugal’s Estado Novo”) examines how people, under the chilling reality of the Portuguese Estado Novo dictatorship (1933–74) constructed, received, and decoded political meaning from Portuguese popular music.