Rate My Professor Roberto Gallardo

Roberto Gallardo is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Sociology in the Department of Criminal Justice and Sociology, School of Liberal Arts and Sciences, at the University of North Texas at Dallas, part of the University of North Texas System. He earned a B.A. in Interdisciplinary Studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Sociology from the University of California, Riverside. Before joining UNT Dallas in 2021 as an Assistant Professor, Gallardo served as an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice at Springfield College in Springfield, Massachusetts. His tenure was granted effective September 1, 2025, recognizing excellence in teaching, research, and service.

Gallardo demonstrates teaching innovation through student- and peer-evaluated excellence, including a first-generation student-focused curriculum, leadership of compressed summer courses, development of a graduate capstone and comparative criminal justice courses, and implementation of exploratory artificial intelligence policies. As Criminal Justice program coordinator, he advises students, serves on faculty hiring committees, volunteers for the Criminal Justice Symposium, and initiated implicit bias training for Dallas Police Department recruits, where he also teaches courses. His research centers on criminology, race and class, and political economy, addressing urban policing challenges, recruit persistence amid negative occupational climates, body-worn camera evaluations, and immigration attitudes. Gallardo sustains grant activity and scholarly productivity with four peer-reviewed journal articles—two as lead author—numerous presentations, and collaborative projects. Key contributions include co-authoring the National Institute of Justice report "Multi-Modal Analysis of Body-Worn Camera Recordings: Evaluating Novel Methods," "Factors That Influence Urban Recruits' Persistence to Pursue Police Careers in a Negative Occupational Climate" (Journal of Criminal Justice Education, 2024), "Configurations of Attitudes Toward Immigration in Europe: Evidence of Polarization, Ambivalence, and Multidimensionality" (2024), and "They Say Where There's Smoke, There's Fire; but Sometimes There's Only Smoke" (Qualitative Criminology, 2024).