In Ancestors, Gods, and the Lord of Heaven: A Social History of Christianity in 17th and 18th-Century Fujian (China), Eugenio Menegon, a candidate for the Ph.D. in History, examines the origins and development of Christian communities evangelized by Dominican friars in northeastern Fujian (China) between 1625 and 1785. Menegon, who will be supported by a Mabelle McLeod Memorial Fund fellowship during his year as Townsend Fellow, uses rare Christian sources in Chinese and in Western languages (religious literature and missionary correspondence), as well as sources on local history and religious traditions , and Qing government reports, to offer a picture of how Christians in these communities were acting out their new faith in relation to local religious traditions.