Rosella Kanarik (1909–2014) was an American mathematics educator and was one of the first women to receive a Ph.D. in math from the University of Pittsburgh.
Her father immigrated to the United States ahead of his family and then he returned to Hungary to marry Sarah in November 1907.
[4] Jobs were scarce when she graduated during The Great Depression so Rosella took a teaching position at a Pittsburgh high school (1932–1936).
[1] Rosella Kanarik taught in high schools in Los Angeles from 1939 to 1946 when she was hired as a lecturer at the University of Southern California where there was a great need for math instructors because of World War II.
In 1953, she became the first female to be named a member of the math department at Los Angeles City College and spent the remainder of her career there.