On 31 January 2023, Posthumus alumna Mayra Murkens succesfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Unequal paths to the grave? Time lags and inequalities in the Dutch health transition, the case of Maastricht, 1864-1955’ at the University of Maastricht. Mayra’s research focusses upon the health transition in Maastricht during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. The research is part of a joint project from Maastricht University and the Center for the Social History of Limburg (Dutch: Sociaal Historisch Centrum Limburg, SHCL). Her supervisors were Professor Angélique Janssens and Dr Willibrord Rutten.