Education
AB 1959, Oklahoma Baptist University
MS 1961, Florida State University
PhD 1965, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Academic Appointments
Wake Forest University, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, 2002-present; Department Chairman, 1969-1977 and 1985-1997; Professor in Department, 1964-2002
Research and Teaching Interests
American Politics; U.S. Congress and Legislative Politics; U.S. Political Parties, Elections, and Governing; Southern Politics; North Carolina Government and Politics
Selected Publications
North Carolina Politics (University of North Carolina Press, 1968); North Carolina Government and Politics (Nebraska 1994); Governors Speak: Public Leadership from the State Executive Mansion (University Press of America, 2007); chapters and articles, including in Cooper and Knotts (eds.), The New Politics of North Carolina (University of North Carolina Press, 2008); Lamis (ed.), Southern Politics in the 1990s (LSU Press, 1999); Hrebenar and Thomas (eds.), Interest Group Politics in the Southern States (Alabama, 1992).
Professor Fleer also has done frequent media commentaries for national, state and local radio, television, and newspapers on subjects of contemporary political and public interest.