ABSTRACT
However artificial it might be, the NCA centennial serves as something of a set point: as a collection of scholars, we pause to look back at our history, to assess our present, and to speculate about our future. The chapters in this volume, taken collectively, do not tell us where we are now, but they do give us some understanding of our progress as an intellectual enterprise (and we can debate what to call that enterprise, though I see many inching toward my preferred label, “discipline”). Taken together, they may suggest what sort of progression would be important to undertake when we put away the party hats and settle back into the business of making scholarship.
