Spring 2000
Dr. Kay Trimberger retires and continues to teach on occasional basis through the Faculty Early Retirement Program
Fall 2001
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
Fall 2003
Dr. Nan Alamilla Boyd joins the faculty, bringing the total number of core tenure-track faculty in the department to three
Fall 2008
Dr. Lena McQuade and Dr. Don Romesburg join the faculty, replacing Professors Stearns and Boyd. The Queer Studies Disciplinary Concentration is added
Fall 2010
The Queer Studies minor is added