Paul Langdon Ward (February 4, 1911 – November 13, 2005) was an American academic, the fifth president of Sarah Lawrence College from 1960 to 1965.
He was an Assistant Professor History at Russell Sage College (Troy, NY) 1941-42 before joining the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) in the U.S. Department of State for the duration of World War II.
After the war, Ward went to China as a missionary for the Protestant Episcopal Church, teaching at Huachung University in Wuhan from 1946 to 1950.
In 1988, along with his wife Catharine, he received the John Nevin Sayre Award of the Episcopal Church for his work to promote peace.
Ward was the author of William Lambarde's Collections on Chancery (1953), A Style of History for Beginners’’ (1959), Confrontation and Learned Societies (with John Voss, 1970), Elements of Historical Thinking (1971), Studying History: An Introduction to Methods and Structure (1985), and “The Voice of Conscience: A Loud and Unusual Noise?