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PhD Promotion Posthumus alumna Mayra Murkens
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.
