Annette Persis Ward (October 16, 1873 – December 6, 1953) was an American historian, writer, and college librarian.

From 1919 to 1938, she was on the faculty at Alma College in Michigan, and the first woman to hold the rank of full professor there.

[8][10] Ward was a librarian at the Woman's Institute of Yonkers[10] and at the Western Reserve Historical Society in Cleveland in the 1900s, and at Alma College in Michigan from 1919 to 1938.

[11][12] She was the first woman to hold the rank of full professor at Alma College, where she taught library methods.

[16] In 1898, she witnessed the Good Friday rituals of the Penitentes in New Mexico.