About Me

Caylin Louis Moore (hear my name) is a sociologist and an incoming Assistant Professor at . His research agenda examines how states classify populations and, in doing so, generate durable forms of stratification and inequality. His empirical focus is the American criminal legal system, where criminal classification—the assignment of labels, categories, and statuses—structures life outcomes, community life, and urban space.

Caylin employs geographic information systems (GIS), in-depth interviews, and ethnographic methods to examine criminal courts, incarceration, policing, reentry, law, and gentrification. His research appears in American Sociological Review (forthcoming June 2026), Annual Review of Criminology, Urban Studies, Urban Affairs Review, and The Oxford Handbook of Gangs and Society, and has received awards from the American Sociological Association and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. 

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. Before Stanford, he taught Economics and U.S. Government/ Civics at a high school in East Palo Alto, CA.