Aleksej Kalc graduated in history from the University of Trieste (Italy) and received his PhD in historical anthropology at the humanities doctoral school Institutum Studiorum Humanitatis in Ljubljana. Before joining the Slovenian Migration Institute, he worked as a researcher at the Section for History of the Slovenian National Library in Trieste and then at the Science and Research Centre of the University of Primorska in Koper. He is also a professor at the Faculty of Humanities at the University of Primorska. His research fields are social, cultural and political history with main emphases on migration and population studies, urban history, border regions, social relationships, demographic and migration politics. His research also includes methodological approaches in historical research, resources and epistemic issues in the migration studies. He is a member of international journals' editorial boards.
KALC, Aleksej (2025). Urban opportunities: demography and mobility in a rural community (Tomaj, eighteenth-twentieth centuries). V: PANJEK, Aleksander (ur.). Upland families, elites and communities : long-run micro perspectives on persistence and change. Koper: University of Primorska Press, str. 197-224. https://www.hippocampus.si/ISBN/978-961-293-486-6/197-224.pdf, DOI: 10.26493/978-961-293-486-6.197-224.
KALC, Aleksej, MILHARČIČ-HLADNIK, Mirjam, ŽITNIK SERAFIN, Janja (2024). Daring dreams of the future: Slovenian mass migrations 1870-1945. Berlin [etc.]: P. Lang. DOI: 10.3726/b21284.
KALC, Aleksej (2024). Trieste ethnographies in the eyes of contemporary observers in the 19th and early 20th centuries. Traditiones: zbornik Inštituta za slovensko narodopisje, letn. 53, št. 3, str. 137-161. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/traditiones/issue/view/979/509, DOI: 10.3986/Traditio2024530306.
KALC, Aleksej (2023). Prihranki izseljencev in njihove poti v domovino v desetletjih pred prvo svetovno vojno. Dve domovini: razprave o izseljenstvu [št.] 58, str. 145-166. https://ojs.zrc-sazu.si/twohomelands/article/view/13208/11548, DOI: 10.3986/dd.2023.2.08.
KALC, Aleksej 2022). Porters in the eighteenth-century Port City of Trieste: a special group within the working population of a free market economy. V: MELLINATO, Giulio (ur.), PANJEK, Aleksander (ur.). Complex Gateways : labour and urban history of maritime port cities : the Northern Adriatic in a comparative perspective : [scientific monograph]. Koper: Založba Univerze na Primorskem, str. 51-69, https://www.hippocampus.si/ISBN/978-961-293-191-9/978-961-293-191-9.51-69.pdf, DOI: 10.26493/978-961-293-191-9.51-69.
KALC, Aleksej (2021). Ravni, akterji in dinamike nadzora ter politike izseljevanja v desetletjih pred prvo svetovno vojno. V: KALC, Aleksej (ur.). Nadzor migracij na Slovenskem od liberalizma do socializma. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, str. 27-62.
KALC, Aleksej (2021). O vzpostavitvi izseljenske zakonodaje v Kraljevini Srbov, Hrvatov in Slovencev. Annales: anali za istrske in mediteranske študije. Series historia et sociologia, letn. 31, št. 3, str. 507-518. https://zdjp.si/wp-content/uploads/2021/12/ASHS_31-2021-3_Kalc.pdf, DOI: 10.19233/ASHS.2021.32.
- National and Cultural Identity of Slovenian Emigration in the Context of Migration Studies (research programme • January 1, 2013 - December 31, 2027)
- Slovenian history on a small scale: continuity and change in a village community in a long-term perspective (Tomaj, 16.-20. century) (fundamental project • October 1, 2021 - September 30, 2024)
- Between the “Tenth Banovina” and the “Seventh Republic”: States and Diasporas in the First and Second Yugoslavia (fundamental project • October 1, 2023 - September 30, 2026)
- Migration and social transformation in comparative perspective: the case of Western Slovenia after WWII (fundamental project • September 1, 2020 - August 31, 2023)
- Migration control in the Slovenian area from the times of Austria-Hungary to independent Slovenia (fundamental project • May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
- Social, economic and cultural history of Slovenian emigration (1945–1991) (fundamental research project • May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
- Social, economic and cultural history of Slovenian emigration (1945–1991) (fundamental research project • May 1, 2017 - April 30, 2020)
- Professor in the Department of History at the Faculty of Humanities, University of Primorska, Koper.
- Award for Scientific Excellence from the University of Primorska, Koper, 2020.
- Member of the editorial board of the academic journals *Acta Histriae*, *Annales*, *Series historia et sociologia*, *Journal of the History of Western Croatia* (Rijeka, Croatia), Dve domovini / Two Homelands and Qualestoria (Trieste, Italy); he is also a member of the Scientific Council of the Studi di storia book series (Edizioni Università di Trieste) and the editorial board of the Slovenian Scientific Collection for the Humanities (SZZH) published by the University of Primorska Press.