Faculty Profile for Dr. Peter B Dedek

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Dr. Peter B Dedek
Professor — History
TMH 206
phone: (512) 245-2420
Scholarly/Creative Work
Awards
Grants
Service

Selected Scholarly/Creative Work

  • 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.
  • Dedek, P. B. (2020). Review of Dust to Dust: A History of Jewish Death and Burial in New York, By Allan Amanik. American Jewish History.

Selected Awards

  • Award / Honor Recipient: Book grant, Fairchild Books. December 2012 - May 2014
  • Award / Honor Recipient: Developmental leave, Texas State University. January 2013 - May 2013

Selected Grants

  • 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.
  • Dedek, Peter B. Developmental Leave, Texas State University. (Funded: January 2020 - Present). Grant.

Selected Service Activities

Board Member
Heritage Association of San Marcos
January 2025-Present
Chair
Search committee, assistant professor of Museum Studies
October 2024-Present
Member
Liberal Arts Library Committee
August 2024-Present
Board Member
Commissioner, San Marcos City Historic Preservation Commission
August 2022-Present
Graduate Advisor
Public History Program
August 2021-Present