Skip to main content Dr. Peter B Dedek
- Professor at History, College of Liberal Arts
Service Activities
Ongoing
- 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.
- Chair, Public History Program.
August 2021 - Present.
- Member, Faculty Senate.
June 2021 - Present.
- Member, Public History Committee.
September 2017 - Present.
- Member, Personnel Committee.
August 2017 - Present.
2024
- Reviewer / Referee, School of Architecture and Planning, University of Texas at San Antonio.
September 2024 - October 2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, The State University of Louisiana Press.
July 2024.
- Reviewer / Referee, The University of Virginia Press.
July 2024.
- Graduate Advisor, Acting graduate director for Dept. of History.
June 2023 - June 2024.
- Member, Performing Arts Committee.
August 2022 - May 2024.
2023
- Reviewer / Referee, 64 Parishes: All About Louisiana: The Encyclopedia of Louisiana History and Culture.
December 2023.
- Member, Faculty Senate Salary Committee.
September 2023 - November 2023.
- Reviewer / Referee, The University of Virginia Press, guidebook on historic cemeteries of Washington DC.
January 2023 - February 2023.
2022
- Reviewer / Referee, Oxford Research Encyclopedia of American History.
February 2021 - February 2022.
2021
- Chair, Public History Program, Department of History.
January 1, 2021 - June 1, 2021.
- Chair, Summative Review Committee for the Dean of the College of Art and Design.
January 2021 - May 2021.
- Chair, Ad Hoc Committee on Promotion Standards for Professors of Practice.
September 2020 - May 2021.
- Member, Texas State University Faculty Senate.
August 15, 2020 - January 1, 2021.
2020
- Title XI Adjudicator.
January 2019 - July 2020.
- Reviewer / Referee, University of New Mexico Press.
May 2020 - June 2020.
- Phi Alpha Theta Student Chapter Co-Advisor.
January 2019 - June 2020.
- Member, Faculty Senate Liaison, History.
August 2018 - June 2020.
- Board Member, San Marcos Cemetery Commission.
February 2019 - February 2020.
2019
- Reviewer / Referee, Peer review of book manuscript, “The Vital Dead: Making Meaning, Identity, and Community through Cemeteries,” by Alison Bell.
August 2019.
- Reviewer / Referee, Peer review of book proposal “Pleasure Grounds of Death: Society, Culture, and the Rural Cemetery in 19th Century America,” by Joy M. Giguere, Ph.D.
July 2019.
- Content Consultant for manuscript, Red Line Editing.
May 2019 - July 2019.
- Member, Fulbright Committee.
September 2017 - June 2019.
- Member, Ph.D Committee.
September 2017 - May 2019.
2018
- Participant, Liberal Arts Innovation Day.
September 24, 2018.
- Member, Faculty Handbook Committee.
August 2015 - June 2018.
- Member, Classroom Renovation Improvement Committee.
March 2014 - June 2018.
- Member, jury, critique of final studio project, ID 2323.
May 7, 2018.
2017
- Member, Personnel Committee FCS.
May 2011 - December 2017.
- Member, Faculty Senate Liaison.
August 2016 - August 2017.
- member, alternate, General Education Council Representative (alternate).
August 2013 - August 2017.
- Participant, Departmental Safety representative.
January 2013 - June 2017.
- Participant, Bobcat Days.
August 2004 - June 2017.
- Reviewer / Referee, University of New Mexico Press.
December 2016 - January 2017.
- Reviewer / Referee, Fairchild Books.
December 2016 - January 2017.
2016
- Undergraduate Advisor, Faculty advisor for American Society of Interior Designers (ASID) student chapter.
October 2004 - December 2016.
- Program Coordinator, interior design, FCS interior design program.
May 2014 - August 2016.
- Member, University Arts Committee.
August 2014 - May 2016.
- Member, Interior Design faculty search committee.
August 2015 - April 2016.
- Organizer, Tour of Texas State Interior Design Program.
March 2016.
- Family and Child Development faculty search committee.
September 2015 - March 2016.
- Participant, Friends of the San Marcos Cemetery, on committee to document and preserve the historic African American section of the San Marcos Cemetery.
August 2014 - January 2016.
2013
- Speaker, Historic Columbus, Texas.
November 1, 2013 - November 2, 2013.
- Volunteer, Camp Mabry.
January 2013 - June 2013.
- Fashion Merchandising faculty search committee.
November 2012 - March 2013.
2012
- Member, Department curriculum committee.
May 2007 - August 2012.
- Volunteer, Historic Columbus, Texas.
June 2012.
- Member, School Director Search Committee.
September 2011 - March 2012.
2011
- Professional Development Director, Texas Chapter Board of Directors of the American Society of Interior Designers (ASID).
January 2009 - December 2011.
2010
- Co-Chair, Sustainability Across the Curriculum faculty development workshop, Texas State University.
August 2009 - May 2010.
- Reviewer / Referee, University of Texas Press.
February 2010 - April 2010.
2007
- Reviewer / Referee, University of New Mexico Press.
February 2007 - March 2007.
2006
- Reviewer / Referee, University of New Mexico Press.
June 2006 - July 2006.
- Reviewer / Referee, Pearson Prentice Hall Pres.
April 2006 - May 2006.
