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Dr. Peter B Dedek

  • Professor - History
  • Dedek, Peter B. Unity3D Faculty Innovation Grant Program award, Unity3D, Private / Foundation / Corporate, $1000. (Submitted: October 2025, Funded: January 2026 - January 2027). Grant.
  • Dedek, Peter B. Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66, Second Edition research project, Center for Southwestern Studies TXST, Texas State University, $3000. (Funded: May 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Dedek, Peter B. Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66, Second Edition research project, College of Liberal Arts TXST, Texas State University, $2000. (Funded: May 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Dedek, Peter B. Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66, Second Edition research project, Department of History, Texas State University, $5000. (Funded: May 1, 2024 - Present). Grant.
  • Dedek, Peter B. Texas State University, $4000. (Funded: May 2020 - Present). Grant.
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  • Dedek, P. B. (n.d.). Hip to the Trip, Second Edition. Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.
  • Dedek, P. B. (2023, October). Review of Eating Up Route 66: Foodways on America’s Mother Road. By T. Lindsay Baker. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2022). Southwestern Historical Quarterly.
  • Dedek, P. B. (2023). Published a new paperback edition of my 2017 monograph “The Cemeteries of New Orleans.” Louisiana State University Press.
  • Dedek, P. B. (2022). The Historic Cemeteries of New Orleans. Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.
  • Dedek, P. B. (2022). The Women Who Professionalized Interior Design. New York, NY, United States: Routledge.
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  • Award / Honor Recipient: Volunteer of the Year, Heritage Association of San Marcos. January 2025 - December 2025
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Book grant, Fairchild Books. December 2012 - May 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Developmental leave, Texas State University. January 2013 - May 2013
  1. Chair

    Public History Minor development committee

  2. Board Member

    Heritage Association of San Marcos

  3. Member

    Liberal Arts Library Committee

  4. Board Member

    Commissioner, San Marcos City Historic Preservation Commission

  5. Graduate Advisor

    Public History Program

  6. Chair

    Public History Program

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