Dr. Kay Trimberger retires and continues to teach on occasional basis through the Faculty Early Retirement Program

Women's and Gender Studies becomes a department. (It had been a program.) Dr. Charlene Tung joins the faculty as the third tenure-track faculty hire in the program's history

Dr. Nan Alamilla Boyd joins the faculty, bringing the total number of core tenure-track faculty in the department to three

Dr. Lena McQuade and Dr. Don Romesburg join the faculty, replacing Professors Stearns and Boyd. The Queer Studies Disciplinary Concentration is added

The Queer Studies minor is added