Former freshman seminar director Elizabeth Doherty took over management of the review’s administrative end to free up Wolcowitz for his new responsibilities.

Wolcowitz, as the self-titled “manager” of the review, was also charged with writing last spring’s report outlining preliminary conclusions for the new curriculum.

Though Wolcowitz’s job description was confined to the review, he showed no sign of wanting to leave before or after the review’s completion.

He said last spring that he expected to continue to manage the review this year and would sit on one of the new coordinating committees.

“I’m not exactly sure what will happen to me [once the review is done], but I’m not particularly concerned,” Wolcowitz said last spring.

Wolcowitz—who once had committed nearly all the items in the College course catalog to memory—earned the respect of many of his colleagues.

“He is really one of the only people around who sees the whole picture,” former Dean of Undergraduate Education William Mills Todd III said last spring.

Wolcowitz, a senior lecturer in economics who will continue to teach Economics 1010a, “Microeconomic Theory” this semester, studied economics in graduate school at Harvard with University President Lawrence H. Summers.

Summers declined comment through a spokeswoman yesterday.

Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby, who is Gross’ boss, did not respond to requests for comment yesterday.

—Staff writer Rebecca D. O’Brien can be reached at robrien@fas.harvard.edu.