Professor Jennifer Pahre has been awarded a a Diversity and Inclusion Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics from the American Political Science Association. The grant will fund a research project about the policy paradigms adopted by the United States and Canada regarding Indigenous persons. In her grant proposal, "A Comparison of Inadequate Doctrines: The Canadian Honour of the Crown v. The Fiduciary Trust Responsibility Doctrine of the United States," Pahre states that without adequate and supportive legal doctrines, the basic human rights of Indigenous peoples are violated each day in Canada and the United States. She proposes that current legal doctrines in both countries contain similar and critical flaws that have impaired meaningful engagement, and advocates for a model that would better support Indigenous rights and offer more mechanisms for their protection.