![]() ![]() In 2008, Kamoie suffered a "mild traumatic brain injury". Kamoie was a professor of history at The Citadel from 1999-2000, American University from 2000 to 2005, and the US Naval Academy from 2005 to 2013, where she received tenure in 2008. Kamoie worked as a historical archaeologist for the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, curated exhibits for the Cumberland County Historical Society in Carlisle, PA, served as senior editor of Washington History, the journal of the Historical Society of Washington, D.C., and worked as project manager of the Adams Morgan Heritage Trail, a project of Cultural Tourism DC, where she wrote Roads to Diversity: The Adams Morgan Heritage Trail. Irons in the Fire: The Business History of the Tayloe Family and Virginia's Gentry, 1700-1860 (2007) was published by the University of Virginia Press. Neabsco and Occoquan: The Tayloe Family Iron Plantations, 1730-1830 (2003) won the Prince William County Historical Commission Dissertation Award. Kamoie wrote two works focusing on the economic activity of the slaveholding colonial Tayloe family of Virginia. Kamoie earned an MA and PhD in early American history from the College of William and Mary. ![]() At Dickinson, she met Brian Kamoie, later an official in the Obama administration, and they married in 1996. A first-generation college student, she graduated cum laude from Dickinson College in 1992. She writes historical fiction under her own name and romance under the name Laura Kaye. ![]() Laura Croghan Kamoie (born August 27, 1970) is an American historian and author. ![]()
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