Barbara Knowles Debs

Barbara Knowles Debs (born in 1931) is an American art historian who was the president of Manhattanville College from 1975 to 1985.

[3][4][5] She is on the board of directors of the Brooklyn Museum of Art, the Foreign Policy Association and the Geraldine Rockefeller Dodge Foundation.

She studied art history in both Pisa and Rome, She then earned her Ph.D. from Harvard University.

[6] On July 20, 1958 she married Richard A. Debs in Orleans, Massachusetts.

[3][11] In 1995 she and her husband endowed the Richard and Barbara Debs Composer's Chair at Carnegie Hall.