Hazel Kathleen Waters is a British librarian, editor and historian.

She has published on racism and Black people on the 19th-century British stage, particularly Ira Aldridge.

She worked there as senior librarian and later as assistant editor of Race & Class, collaborating with Ambalavaner Sivanandan.

[1] In 2002 Waters gained a PhD from the University of London, with a thesis on the black presence on the English stage between the late-18th and mid-19th century.

[2] Her resultant monograph, Racism on the Victorian stage (2007), was welcomed as an "important book".