Richard Foglesong

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Richard E. Foglesong is an American historian and political scientist who writes about Florida, U.S. politics, urban development, New Urbanism, Hispanic politics, and the history of Walt Disney World and the Reedy Creek Improvement District. He is the George and Harriet Cornell Professor of Politics, Emeritus at Rollins College.

Education and career:
Foglesong earned his Master of Arts in urban affairs and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Chicago, where he was a Ford Foundation Urban Fellow. He began his teaching career at Amherst College and joined Rollins College in 1984. In 1990, he took a leave to serve as the Harvey Perloff Professor of Urban Planning at the University of California, Los Angeles. He retired in 2018.

Books:
Foglesong has written several influential books, including Planning the Capitalist City: The Colonial Era to the 1920s (1986), Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando (2001), and Immigrant Prince: Mel Martinez and the American Dream (2011).