Brendan McConville (born 1965) is an American author and professor of history at Boston University.

His research focuses on the intersection of politics and social developments in Early America, and his interests include colonial history and the English Reformation.

After the release of These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace, Michael Bellesiles wrote that "Brendan McConville has produced an outstanding work of social history.

A few scholars have looked briefly at New Jersey's 1740s land riots, but McConville is the first to place these events in their deep historical context.

"[3] In Common-place: The Interactive Journal of Early American Life, Benjamin Irvin called the book "a brilliant, bounding study of Anglo-American political culture.