Dr. Michael Cassella- Blackburn joined the Peninsula College faculty in 2003 as a history professor. Cassella-Blackburn received his Ph.D. from Syracuse University, and his latest field of study is Sino-Soviet-American relations. In 2004, Praeger published his book, The Donkey,
the Carrot and the Club: William C. Bullitt and Soviet American Relations, 1917-1948. In 2018, Mellon published his Radical Anti-Communism in Postwar America, 1945-1950: William C.
Bullitt and the Case for Saving China. Cassella-Blackburn lives in Port Townsend with his wife Lynne.

Darcie Hodgkins Langone has a BA in Sociology and an MA in Interdisciplinary Humanities from California State University. She has worked in publishing and research and was a reader and editorial assistant for The Donkey, the Carrot, and the Club and for Radical Anti-Communism in Postwar America. She has taught in several colleges. Currently she is teaching History and Humanities at Peninsula College and Central Texas College. Ms. Hodgkins Langone lives in  Washington State with her husband Carl.