Background
Dibble, Charles Elliott was born on August 18, 1909 in Layton, Utah, United States. Son of George Elliott and Ella Annice (Tolman) Dibble.
Dibble, Charles Elliott was born on August 18, 1909 in Layton, Utah, United States. Son of George Elliott and Ella Annice (Tolman) Dibble.
Bachelor, University Utah, 1936. Master of Arts, National University Mexico, 1938. Doctor of Philosophy, National University Mexico, 1942.
A former Distinguished Professor of Anthropology at the University of Utah, Dibble retired in 1978 after an association with the university as lecturer and researcher spanning four decades. Post-retirement Dibble continued to conduct and publish research in his area of expertise, studies of Mesoamerican historical literature and the historiography of conquest-era Mesoamerican cultures, in particular those of the Aztec and others of the central Mexican altiplano. Born in Layton, Utah, Dibble attended the University of Utah, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in history in 1936.
Dibble traveled to Mexico in the year preceding his graduation, and his experiences there shaped the direction of his future career as a Mesoamericanist scholar.
Dibble enrolled at the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México) in Mexico City for postgraduate studies, completing a Master"s degree in anthropology in 1938. Upon receiving his Master of Arts Dibble gained a teaching position at his alma mater in Utah commencing in 1939, where he would be based for the remainder of his long academic career.
At the same time he pursued his doctoral studies at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, and was awarded his Doctor of Philosophy from Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México in 1942. Dibble also undertook a year"s post-doctoral work at Harvard, in 1943.
In 1994, a festschrift entitled Chipping away on earth: studies in prehispanic and colonial Mexico in honor of Arthur J.O. Anderson and Dibble was published.
Fellow History Society New Mexico. Member Academia Mexicana de la Historia, Sociedad Mexicana de Antropologia, Institute Andean Research, Asociacion Internacional de Nahuatlatos, Phi Beta Kappa, Phi Kappa Phi.
Married Audrey Nelson, December 16, 1936. Children: Nelson, Ella, Charlene, Carlos.