History professor, Dr. Arunima Datta has managed to stay busy since the release of her book Fleeting Agencies: A Social History of Indian Coolie Women in British Malaya published by Cambridge University Press in 2021. Recently, Datta has appeared on a BBCSounds podcast, been awarded Fellow status by the Royal Historical Society (UK) for her contributions to historical scholarship, and now her book has received the National Women’s Studies Association’s (NWSA) Whaley Book Prize.