From left to right:

• Computer Science: Wunderkind who went into CS hoping to be the next Steve Jobs but ended up at Academia after figuring out how to get broadband speed data connections over shortwave radio. May be in the throws of a gender crisis, but who knows.
• Archeology and/or History: This man is an expert in Minoan history. He originally planned to go into Egyptology until he attended a lecture on the Thera Eruption and got hyper obsessed. Known for his eccentric dress sense, unless he's on an archeological dig (in which case he dresses in overalls, doesn't want to get his suits dirty). Openly gay. Believed Linear A might be a abugida.
• Economics and Gender Studies: You may think economics and gender studies are odd bedfellows, but this professor wrote a paper on the economics of transgender women in which she argued, with receipts, that transgender women effectively fall a whole class category when they transition and are where ciswomen were societally in the 1950s and is falling quickly. Her mail, both personal and professional, has to go through the mailroom of the medical department, because their mailroom is bombproofed due to pro-lifers sending them pipebombs, because she keeps getting death threats and even a pipebomb from anti-trans groups. Judith Butler and Abigail Thorne both cite her works on the regular. Her book on non-monitery economics is required reading.
• Mycology: Got into Mycology because of Terrance McKenna, stayed in Mycology because of Paul Stamets. Despite not working with psychedelic mushrooms, he is on several watchlists and has to add an extra three hours every time he goes international or flies. He managed to send a message from one end of a forest to the other, not only proving that fungi "talk" to each other but also how fast a message takes. Believes that studying Mycology also has engineering and political applications too. The latter is the reason why he keeps getting stopped at airport security. His essay on "Anarcho-Mycologism", despite not advocating violence, is seen as threatening by most governments.