The challenge of building transatlantic studies as a field for scholarship and teaching resonates with those facing other interdisciplinary fields in their early stages. So we can take heart from those. In Gender and Women Studies, for instance, initially there were tiny pockets of activity at a few universities, but the emerging field grew, over time, not only in numbers of participants, but also in institutional identity markers such as faculty lines, academic programs, and more. We can hope that 20 years from now, we’ll see a similar trajectory in transatlantic studies.