Louis "Pancho" McFarland is an American scholar who specializes in Chicano culture, particularly food and music.
McFarland was raised in Raton, New Mexico, and graduated from Colorado College in 1991. He is of Mexican descent, and visited Mexico while attending college.[1] In 2002, he was assistant professor of sociology at University of Colorado Colorado Springs.[2] Ca. 2006[3] he became a professor of sociology at Chicago State University. Since 2008 he is the executive director of the Green Lots Project, an organization active in the decolonial food movement.[4]