Josefina Cuesta

Josefina Cuesta Bustillo (4 March 1947 – 30 March 2021) was a Spanish historian, a professor of contemporary history at the University of Salamanca.

Cuesta was born in Villamorón in the Province of Burgos in 1947. Her speciality was social history and equality of women in Spain in the 20th century. She died in Salamanca on 30 March 2021, at the age of 74. At the time of her death she was catedrática emérita at the Centro de Estudios de la Mujer (Centre for women's studies) at the University of Salamanca.