About Me

Caylin Louis Moore (hear my name) is a Doctoral Candidate in Stanford's sociology department, a Ford Foundation and ASA MFP Fellow. His research examines how criminal classification contributes to the reproduction of inequality across the criminal legal system, with particular focus on criminal courts, prison reentry, parole, policing, and gentrification. Caylin employs geospatial and quantitative analysis (GIS), as well as interviews and ethnographic methods.

His dissertation draws on in-depth interviews with formerly incarcerated men and women over two years of ethnographic research at California reentry programs to analyze how the state (co)creates criminal status in its inhabitants.

Caylin's research has been published in Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, Annual Review of Criminology, and Journal of Latinos and Education, and has received awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. 

Before Stanford, he taught Economics and U.S. Government/ Civics at a high school in East Palo Alto, CA. He is the author of A Dream Too Big: The Story of an Improbable Journey from Compton to Oxford. Caylin holds a master's in Latin American Studies from the University of Oxford, where he was a 2017 Rhodes Scholar. He received his BS in Economics from TCU in 2017.