
Prof. Scott F. Granger
Assistant Professor
Deputy Director - West Point Center for Oral History
Center for Oral History
History
Lieutenant Commander (Retired) Scott F. Granger graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1988 with a Bachelor of Science degree in history. A Surface Warfare Officer, he served aboard cruisers and destroyers before obtaining a Master of Arts degree in U.S. history from American University in Washington, D.C., in 1996. He has taught history at Annapolis, where he was the recipient of the 2004 Class of 1951 Military Faculty Teaching Excellence Award and William P. Clements Award for Excellence in Education, and at West Point, where he received a Department of History Excellence in Teaching Award in 2008. In addition to teaching, he has worked in the West Point Center for Oral History since his retirement from active duty in 2011.
BS (with Merit) in History, US Naval Academy 1988
MA in United States History, The American University, Washington, DC 1996
Research Interests
History of the early US Navy
History of philosophy and religion
Selected Publications
“Literary Lions Go Head to Head,” in U.S. Naval Institute’s Naval History magazine (June 2001)