# Departments

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**At the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, the departments are responsible for the preparation and implementation of teaching and research. The Faculty of Arts and Sciences has five departments.**

### Department of History

**Chair: Dr Aline Sierp**\
**Secretary: Anja Servais**\
The Department of History is the locus of the Faculty’s expertise in the field of history. Our staff specialises in political, social, economic and cultural history, as well as the history of science and technology.\
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  [Website](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/node/46038)\
  +31 43-3883314

### Department of Literature & Art

**Chair: Prof. Dr. A. Swinnen\
Secretaries: Ineke Stevens, Kirsten Kluivers**\
The department of Literature & Art is the locus of the faculty's expertise in the fields of literature history and theory, art history and theory, film and media history and theory, music and theatre studies and sociolinguistics.\
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  [Website](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/node/46233)\
  +31 43-3883317/3883314

### Department of Society Studies

**Chair:  Dr. A. Hommels** \
**Secretary: Cindy van Montfoort**\
The Department of Society Studies provides input for the teaching and research conducted by the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Our staff specialises in two fields of interdisciplinary scholarship: Science, Technology and Society studies (STS) and Globalisation, Transnationalism and Development research.\
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[Website](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/about-um/faculties/arts-and-social-sciences/departments/department-society-studies)\
  +31 43-3883476

### Department of Political Science

**Chair: Prof. Dr. E. Versluis\
Secretary: Cecile Luijten**\
The department of Political Science provides the input of political science and public administration in the teaching and research of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences. Our staff has a background in political science, public administration, international relations, sociology and philosophy.

  [Website](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/node/46235)\
  +31 43-3883470

### Department of Philosophy

**Chair: Dr. D. Meacham\
Secretary: Jacqueline Graff**\
The department of Philosophy's emphasis is on four specialist areas or points of special interest: the philosophy of science, technological philosophy, the philosophy of art and culture, and political and social philosophy.\
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  [Website](https://www.maastrichtuniversity.nl/node/46236)\
  +31 43-3883319\