Peyton Cunningham is a PhD student in the Sociology department at the University of Chicago. She is an Institute for Education Sciences fellow with the Committee of Education. Broadly, her work engages theories of prejudice reduction, education, stratification, and identity-based preferences. Her research examines how intergroup contact and institutional structures shape bias and social preferences in educational settings. Her dissertation investigates the role of assigned college roommates in shaping students’ attitudes toward race, class, and sexuality, using original conjoint experiments, longitudinal survey data, and in-depth interviews.