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Texas State University

Dr. Peter B Dedek

  • Professor - History
  • TMH 206
  • tel:+15122452420
  • pd11@txstate.edu
  • Grants
  • Scholarly/Creative work
  • Awards
  • Service

Featured 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.

Featured scholarly/creative works

  • 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.
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Featured awards

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

Featured service activities

  1. Board Member

    Heritage Association of San Marcos

    January 2025 - Present
  2. Chair

    Search committee, assistant professor of Museum Studies

    October 2024 - Present
  3. Member

    Liberal Arts Library Committee

    August 2024 - Present
  4. Board Member

    Commissioner, San Marcos City Historic Preservation Commission

    August 2022 - Present
  5. Graduate Advisor

    Public History Program

    August 2021 - Present
  6. Chair

    Public History Program

    August 2021 - Present
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