"The Library Resident Research Fellowship provided me the opportunity to begin my dissertation research in an ideal atmosphere.  Besides its rich collections, the APS offers a most welcoming environment, fostered by an attentive, friendly staff that is eager to help researchers."  Daniel Wasserman, a doctoral candidate at the University of Virginia, is completing his dissertation, Translating the Words of God: Evangelization and Language Policy in the Spanish World, examining the question of which languages missionaries could use in teaching Catholicism to the many different peoples who inhabited the 16th-century Spanish Empire.