Alice Mary Baldwin (January 24, 1879 in Lewiston, Maine – October 12, 1960) was an American historian and educator, noted as the Dean of the Woman's College of Duke University from 1923 until her retirement in 1947.

[1] After one year, she transferred to Cornell University where she was named to the Phi Beta Kappa honor society and from where she graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree in history in 1900.

In 1923, Baldwin took the job as Acting Dean of Women at Trinity College in Durham, North Carolina (later to become part of Duke University).

[1] While at Trinity, Baldwin completed her doctoral thesis (on the topic of New England clergy and the American Revolution) in time to receive her PhD from the University of Chicago in 1926.

After her death a memorial service was conducted in the Duke University Chapel, and her ashes were buried in the family plot at Lenox, Massachusetts.