Peer-reviewed publications (*students)

Lee, E, TD Baird, D Lee (In press) Supporting Student Agency Through Student-Centered Learning Across Educational Contexts. Innovations in Education and Teaching International 

Dharmasiri, IP, EK Galappaththi, TD Baird, A Bukvic, S Rijal (2025) From Roots to Resilience: Exploring the Drivers of Indigenous Entrepreneurship for Climate Adaptation. Sustainability 17 (10): 4472. (open access) (pdf)

Perera, CD, EK Galappaththi, C Zavaleta-Cortijo, TD Baird, KN Kolivras (2025) A conceptual framework to improve climate-resilient health among Indigenous communities. Environmental Science & Policy 168: 104069. (link)

*Villarreal, M, TD Baird, PA Tarazaga, DJ Kniola, TJ Pingel, R Sarlo (2025) Shared Space and Resource Use within a Building Environment: An Indoor Geography. The Geographical Journal 191, e12604. (open access) (pdf)

*Karki, S, TJ Pingel, TD Baird, A Flack, T Ogle (2024) Enhancing Digital Twins with Human Movement Data: A Comparative Study of Lidar-Based Tracking Methods. Remote Sensing 16 (18) 3453. (open access) (pdf)

Baird, TD (2024) Pastoralist livelihood diversification and social network transition: a conceptual framework. Pastoralism: Research, Policy and Practice 14: 12892. (open access) (pdf)

Baird, TD, E Woodhouse, JT McCabe, P Barnes, F Terta, N Runda (2024) New pathways for women's empowerment in pastoralist Maasai households, Tanzania. Journal of Rural Studies 109: 103333. (link) (accepted manuscript) (VT News)

Chaplin-Kramer, R, R Neugarten, D Gonzales-Jimenez, G Ahmadia, TD Baird, N Crane, E Delgoulet, H Eyster, N Kurashima, JC Llopis, A Millington, A Pawlowska-Mainville, J Rulmal, F Saunders, S Shrestha, M Vaughan, K Winter, S Wongbusarakum, U Pascual (2023) Transformation for inclusive conservation: Evidence on values, decisions, and impacts in protected areas. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability 64: 101347. (open access) (pdf)

Baird, TD (2023) Vignette in The Faculty Factor: Developing Faculty Engagement with Living-Learning Communities  by (eds) JE Eidum and LL Lomicka. Stylus Publishing LLC (pp 34-35). (link) (pdf)

Baird, TD, JT McCabe, E Woodhouse (2022) Case study 4 Tarangire National Park, Tanzania. (2022) IPBES Values Assessment Chapter 4 - Literature & case study review on outcomes in protected areas and indigenous and community conserved areas (ICCAs). (open access) (pdf)
 
Barton, DN, R Chaplin-Kramer, E Lazos, M Van Noordwijk, S Engel, A Girvan, T Hahn, B Leimona, S Lele, A Niamir, B Özkaynak, A Pawlowska-Mainville, R Muradian, P Ungar, C Aydin, P Iranah, S Nelson, M Cantú-Fernández, D González-Jiménez, and Contributing Authors (2022) Chapter 4: Value expression in decision-making. In: Methodological Assessment Report on the Diverse Values and Valuation of Nature of the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services. Balvanera, P., Pascual, U., Christie, M., Baptiste, B., and González-Jiménez, D. (eds). IPBES secretariat, Bonn, Germany. (open access) (pdf)

Lee, E and TD Baird (2021) Roles of Autonomous Motivation, Individualism, and Instructor Support in Student-Centered Learning in South Korea and the United States. Educational Technology International 22 (2) 285-309. (open access link) (pdf) (the Chronicle of Higher Education)
 
Quandt, A, JD Salerno, TD Baird, JT McCabe, E Xu, JE Herrick, J Hartter (2021) Mobile phone use and agricultural impacts among female smallholder farmers in Tanzania. Journal of Gender, Agriculture and Food Security 6 (1) 43-54. (open access) (pdf)

Baird, TD, JT McCabe, E Woodhouse, I Rumas, S Sankeni, GO Saitoti (2021) Mobile phones and wrong numbers: how Maasai agro-pastoralists form and use accidental social ties in East Africa. Ecology and Society 26 (2) 41. (open access) (pdf) (public lecture) (theconversation.com)
 
Baird, TD (2021) Applying the Own it, Learn it, Share it framework to the flexible Pink Time assignment to scaffold student autonomy online or in person. Educational Technology Research and Development 69 (1) 105-108. (link) (view-only link) (the Chronicle of Higher Education)

Quandt, A, JD Salerno, JC Neff, TD Baird, JE Herrick, JT McCabe, E Xu, J Hartter (2020) Mobile phone use is associated with higher smallholder agricultural productivity in Tanzania, East Africa. PLoS ONE 15 (8) e0237337. (open access) 

*Summers, KH, TD Baird, E Woodhouse, ME Christie, JT McCabe, F Terta, N Peter (2020) Mobile phones and women's empowerment in Maasai communities: How men shape women's social relations and access to phones. Journal of Rural Studies 77: 126-137. (open access) (pdf) (VT News)
 
Baird, TD, DJ Kniola, J Hartter, KA Carlson, S Rogers, D Russell and JC Tise (2020) Adapting Pink Time to Promote Self-Regulated Learning Across Course and Student Types. International Journal of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education 32 (1) 49-63. (open access) (the Chronicle of Higher Education)
 
*Fox, DN, TD Baird, MJ Stern, and SP Prisley (2019) Where mobile groups settle: spatial patterns and correlates of Maasai pastoralist sedentarization in northern Tanzania. Applied Geography 112: 102086. (link)
 
*Jensen, D, TD Baird, and G Blank (2018) New Landscapes of Conflict: Land Use Competition at the Urban-Rural Fringe. Landscape Research 44 (4): 418-429. (link)

Santo, A, K Guillozet, MG Sorice, TD Baird, SA Gray, CJ Donlan and CB Anderson (2017) Examining private landowners' knowledge systems of invasive species. Human Ecology 45 (4): 449-462. (link)

Baird, TD and J Hartter (2017) Livelihood diversification, mobile phones and information diversity in northern Tanzania. Land Use Policy 67: 460-471. (link) (vtnews.vt.edu) (theconversation.com)
 
Baird, TD, BC Chaffin and DJ Wrathall (2017) A Disturbance Innovation Hypothesis: Perspectives from Human and Physical Geography. The Geographical Journal 183 (2): 201-208. (link) (pdf)
 
*Lewis, AL, TD Baird and MG Sorice (2016) Mobile phone use and human-wildlife conflict in northern Tanzania. Environmental Management 58 (1): 117-129. (link) (motherboard.com) (rewrite.com) (durablehuman.com) (theconversation.com)

Stern, MJ and TD Baird (2015) Trust ecology and the resilience of natural resources institutions. Ecology and Society 29 (2): 14. (open access) (pdf) (wholeterrain.com)

Baird, TD (2015) Conservation implications of the diffusion of Christian religious ideals in rural Africa. Population and Environment 36 (4): 373-399. (link)

Baird, TD (2015) Comment on Who Helps and Why? Cooperative Networks in Mpimbwe by C. Kasper and M. Borgerhoff Mulder. Current Anthropology. 56 (5): 701-732. (link)
 
Baird, TD, DJ Kniola, AL Lewis* and SB Fowler (2015) Pink Time: Evidence of self regulated learning and academic motivation among undergraduate students. Journal of Geography 114 (4): 146-157. (link) (the Chronicle of Higher Education)

MacKenzie, CA, TD Baird, J Hartter (2014) Use of Single Large or Several Small Policies as Strategies to Manage People-Park Interactions. Conservation Biology 28 (6): 1645-1656. (link) 

Baird, TD and CL Gray (2014) Livelihood Diversification and Shifting Social Networks of Exchange: A Social Network Transition? World Development 60: 14-30. (link) (research.vt.edu) (theconversation.com)

Baird, TD (2014) Conservation and Unscripted Development: Proximity to park associated with development and financial diversity. Ecology and Society 19 (1): 4. (open access) (pdf) 

Baird, TD and PW Leslie (2013) Conservation as Disturbance: Upheaval and Livelihood Diversification near Tarangire National Park. Global Environmental Change 23 (5): 1131-1141. (link) (research.vt.edu)

Baird, TD (2013) Parks and Place Fragments: The Implications of Biodiversity Protection in Tanzania and Indiana. African Geographical Review 32 (1): 100-104. (link)

Baird, TD, PW Leslie, and JT McCabe (2009) Effect of Conservation on Local Perceptions of Risk and Behavioral Response. Human Ecology 37 (4): 463-474. (link)

Miller, TR, TD Baird, C Littlefield, GP Kofinas, FS Chapin III, CL Redman (2008) Epistemological pluralism: Reorganizing interdisciplinary research. Ecology and Society 13 (2). (open access) (pdf)
 
 
Invited commentaries

Baird, TD (2015) Motivate the Future. Pedagogy in Practice. Center for Instructional Development and Educational Research, Virginia Tech, 2-4. (link)