José Luis Rodríguez Jiménez (born 1961) is a Spanish historian, considered an expert in the history of right-wing extremism in Spain.

[1] Born in 1961 in Madrid,[2][3] he earned a licentiate degree in history at the Complutense University of Madrid; he later obtained a PhD in the same centre in 1992 under the doctoral supervision of Antonio Fernández García reading a thesis dealing with the positions espoused by the Spanish far-right and the further evolution it experienced during the late francoist period and the Spanish transition to democracy.[n.

1] He is professor of Contemporary History at the King Juan Carlos University (URJC).

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