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".