Roger T. Grange

Born in 1927, Roger T. Grange Jr. was an American archaeologist and author whose work linked academic research with public history. He wrote on subjects including Fort Robinson and produced a substantial body of archaeological reports and studies, with published work on sites such as Fort Mackinac and Fort Lennox.

Grange also played an important role at the University of South Florida. The university’s department history credits him as an archaeologist who served as chair when anthropology became a department in 1967, and notes that he later returned as chair from 1988 to 1991.

Available sources suggest a long career devoted to archaeology, especially historical archaeology and site excavation. He died in 2017 at age 89.