CV & Publications

curriculum vitae at Donna Bilak Academia.edu

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Published

Guest Editor, Gold & Mercury: Amalgamated Histories in Chemistry, Culture, and Environment. Special Issue, AMBIX: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, 70.1 (February 2023). https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/yamb20/70/1

“Living Then and Now with Gold and Mercury.” In “Gold & Mercury” Special Issue, AMBIX, 70.1 (February 2023): 1–6. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2192590

(With George Vrtis) “Environmental Alchemy: Mercury-Gold Amalgamation Mining and the Transformation of the Earth.” In “Gold & Mercury” Special Issue, AMBIX, 70.1 (February 2023): 31–53. https://doi.org/10.1080/00026980.2023.2192131

“Ch.3 Laboratories and Technology: Chymical Practice and Sensory Experience.” In A Cultural History of Chemistry in the Early Modern Age, ed. Bruce T. Moran, 67–88. Volume 3 of A Cultural History of Chemistry, gen. eds. Peter Morris and Alan Rocke. London: Bloomsbury, 2022.

Furnace and Fugue: A Digital Edition of Michael Maier’s Atalanta fugiens (1618) with Scholarly Commentary. Co-edited with Tara Nummedal (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).

Chasing Atalanta: Maier, Steganography, and the Secrets of Nature. In Furnace and Fugue (Charlottesville: University of Virginia Press, 2020).

“Out of the Ivy and into the Arctic: Imitation Coral Reconstruction in Cross-Cultural Contexts.” Special Issue, “Rethinking Performative Methods in the History of Science.” Guest Editor, Marieke M. A. Hendriksen. Berichte zur Wissenschaftsgeschichte, Vol. 43 (2020): 314-366.

“The Jeweler’s Art and Alchemical Transformation.” In Jewelry Stories: Highlights from the Collection 1947-2019, ed. Barbara Paris Gifford. Stuttgart: Arnoldsche Art Publishers in association with the Museum of Arts and Design, New York, 2020.

“Making and Knowing Pedagogy.” In Secrets of Craft and Nature in Renaissance France. A Digital Critical Edition and English Translation of BnF Ms. Fr. 640, eds. Pamela H. Smith et al. Columbia University Libraries, NY: The Making and Knowing Project, 2020. https://edition640.makingandknowing.org/#/essays/ann_305_ie_19

“The Making and Knowing Project: Reflections, Methods, and New Directions.” Co-authored with Pamela H. Smith, Joel Klein, and Jenny Boulboullé. West 86th: A Journal of Decorative Arts, Design History, and Material Culture, Vol. 23, No.1 (Spring-Summer 2016): 35-55.

“Decoding Bronzino’s Portrait of Eleonora di Toledo (c.1539): An Iconography of Jewels and Dress.” In Agnolo Bronzino: The Muse of Florence, ed. Liana De Girolami Cheney (Washington, DC: New Academia Publishing, 2014), pp. 371-392.

“Alchemy and the End Times: Revelations from the Laboratory and Library of John Allin, Puritan Alchemist (1623-1683).” Special Issue, “Alchemy and Religion in Christian Europe.” Guest Editor, Tara Nummedal. Ambix: The Journal of the Society for the History of Alchemy and Chemistry, Vol.60, No.4 (November 2013): 390-414.

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. “Allin, John (1623-1683), non-conformist minister and alchemist.”

Popular

Coda: The Jeweler’s Bench. Object of the Month, feature exhibition “A View from the Jeweler’s Bench: Ancient Treasures, Contemporary Statements.” Bard Graduate Center (February 14 – July 7, 2019)

Gershom Bulkeley (1635-1713): A Sensory Chymist in Colonial Connecticut
The Recipes Project. 19 April 2018

Blast from the Past: Atomic Age Jewelry and the Feminine Ideal
Distillations Magazine, Science History Institute. Vol.1, No.1 (Spring 2015): 34–37

The Crying of Lot 222: A Victorian Brooch Deconstructed
Ornamentum, Vol.31, No.1-2 (Spring/Summer 2014): 18-21

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