Faculty Profiles

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.

Dedek, P. B. (2018, September). Review of A Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2017). The Cemeteries of New Orleans: a Cultural History. Baton Rouge, LA, United States: The  Louisiana State University Press.

Dedek, P. B. (2015). “Preservation Design: Historic Interiors,.” In Interior Design for the Curious: Why Study Interior Design? Canberra, Australia: University of Canberra.

Dedek, P. B. (2015, July). Review of Father of Route 66:the Story of Cy Avery, by Susan Croce Kelly. New Mexico Historical  Review.

Dedek, P. B. (2014). Historic Preservation for Designers. New York, NY: Fairchild Books.

Dedek, P. B. (2014, September). Review of Route 66: A Road to America’s Landscape, History, and Culture, by Markku  Henriksson. Illinois Geographer.

Dedek, P. B. (2012). Review of Remembering Roadside America: Preserving the Recent Past as Landscape and Place, by John A. Jackle and Keith A. Sculle. Journal of Tourism History.

Dedek, P. B. (2012, April). Review of Route 66 Lost and Found: Mother Road Ruins and Relics-the Ultimate Collection by Russell A. Olsen. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2011, October). Review of Greetings from Route 66, the Ultimate Road Trip Along America’s Main Street, by Michael Dregli. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2011). “From Cozy Cabin to Two Beds and a Television: Progress and the Evolution of the Vernacular Motel Room, 1930-1970,.” Society for Commercial Archeology Journal,.

Dedek, P. B. (2010, July). Review of Land of Necessity: Consumer Culture in the United States—Mexico Borderlands, Alexis McCrossen. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2010, July). Review of Indian-Made: Navajo Culture in the Marketplace, 1868-1940.  By Erika Marie Bsumek. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2010, April). Review of Houston Lost and Rebuilt, Steven R. Strom. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2008, October). Review of Super-Scenic Motorway: A Blue Ridge Parkway History by Anne Mitchell Whisnant. Journal of Appalachian Studies.

Dedek, P. B. (2008, July). Review of The Alleys and Back Buildings of Galveston: An Architectural and Social History By Ellen Beasley. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Hill, C. C., & Dedek, P. B. (2007). Technology trends and policies in interior design education. Texas Association of Family & Consumer Sciences Research Journal, 2(2), 7–9.

Hill, C. (2007). “Technology Trends and Policies in Interior Design Education.” TAFCS Research Journal.

Hill, C. C., & Dedek, P. B. (2007). Technology trends and policies in interior design education.

Dedek, P. B. (2007, October). Review of The Country Houses of John F. Staub.  By Stephen Fox. Southwestern Historical Quarterly.

Dedek, P. B. (2007). Hip to the Trip: A Cultural History of Route 66. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press.

Hill, C. C., Dedek, P. B., & Matthews, C. (2006). Keeping tabs on technology. Interiors & Sources, 13(7), 58–59.

Hill, C. C., Dedek, P. B., & Matthews, C. A. (2006, December 1). Keeping tabs on technology.

Hill, C. C., & Dedek, P. B. (2006). Competitive marketplace: Technology and interior design education.

Dedek, P. B. (2005). The Mother Road of Nostalgia: Preservation and Interpretation Along Route 66. In Preserving Western Heritage: A College Textbook on Historic Preservation and Public History in the American West. University of New Mexico Press.