Érika Melek Delgado is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at King's College London. She is the principal investigator of the project Historical African Childhoods (HAC Project) and Associate Director of Freedom Narratives.

For her Early Career Fellow position, Érika was approved for The Leverhulme Trust and The British Academy fellowships. Before this position, she has completed a two-year Postdoctoral Fellowship at The Harriet Tubman Institute for Research on Africa and its Diasporas, at York University, Canada. As a postdoc fellow, she was awarded two major grants from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) of Canada.